Heavy Metals In The Environment
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2002
Book
Hardback
712 pages
978-0-8247-0630-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents contemporary analytical techniques for the determination of heavy metals in air particles, water, soil and biological samples. It details experimental studies to reduce the occurance of disease, remediate contaminated sites and establish acceptable range of oral intakes (AROI) guidelines.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Weight
1089 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8247-0630-2 (9780824706302)
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Content
Persistence versus perseverance; heavy metals in food of animal origin; trace elements in plant foodstuffs; mechanisms of heavy metal inorganic toxicities; metabolism and metabolic action of lead and other heavy metals; lead and the nervous system; lead poisoning; epidemiology of lead poisoning in animals; outbreaks of plumbism in animals associated with industrial lead operations; lead intoxification in urban dogs; the use of animal models for comparative studies of lead poisoning; pollution by Cadmium and the Itai-Itai disease in Japan; methyl mercury poisoning due to environmental contamination (Minamata disease); toxicity of inorganic and organic mercury compounds in animals; toxicity and residual aspects of alkymercury fungicides in livestock.