Heavy Metals in the Aquatic Environment

1988 ◽  
pp. 16-32
Author(s):  
Martyn Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Aquatic Environment

COPPER AND ZINC INDUCED CHANGES IN SOYBEAN (Glycine max (L.) Merr.)

1970 ◽  
pp. 09
Author(s):  
K. SANKAR GANESH ◽  
P. SUNDARAMOORTHY
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Glycine Max ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Industrial Activities ◽  
Copper And Zinc ◽  
Glycine Max L ◽  
Zinc Concentrations ◽  
Induced Changes

Heavy metals are one of the most important pollutants released to the aquatic environment by the various industrial activities. The use of these wastewater for irrigation results accumulation of heavy metals in soil and plants. So, the present investigation deals with the various concentrations (0, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200 and 300 mg/l) of copper and zinc on germination studies of soybean. The different concentrations of copper and zinc were used for germination studies. The seedlings were allowed to grow upto seven days. The studied morphological traits increased at 5 mg/l concentration and these parameters are gradually decreased with the increase of copper and zinc concentrations.

ZIRCONIUM LOADED BANANA STEM FIBERS AS ADSORBENT FOR RECOVERY OF HG(II)

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (8-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurrulhidayah Salamun ◽  
Sugeng Triwahyono ◽  
Aishah Abdul Jalil
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Mercury Removal ◽  
Cellulose I ◽  
Xrd Pattern ◽  
Crystal Phases ◽  
Good Possibility ◽  
Banana Stem

Mercury is one of the most toxic pollutants which pose a great threat to both human health and organism security. A great deal of research over recent decades has been motivated by the requirement to lower the concentration of these heavy metals in water and the need to develop low cost techniques which can be widely applied for heavy metals remediation. Adsorption is by far the most reliable technologies for removing mercury from water. In this study, banana stem fibers, a natural biomass was loaded with zirconium (IV) to investigate its feasibility for mercury removal from an aquatic environment. The XRD pattern for both BSF-HCl and Zr/BSF-HCl exhibited mainly the cellulose I structure which consists of two distinct crystal phases. The FESEM images illustrated the presence of relatively well organized, pronounced and uniform cavities distributed around the surface, indicated a good possibility for the metal ions to be adsorbed. The result shows that Hg (II) adsorption capacity increased from 45 to 72 mg/g after the immobilization of Zr due to increase in the active sites on the adsorbent. 

Distribution and assessment of heavy metals in the aquatic environment of Lake Manzala, Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 445-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Elkady ◽  
Stephen T. Sweet ◽  
Terry L. Wade ◽  
Andrew G. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Aquatic Environment ◽  
Lake Manzala
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