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CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

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Volume 21 - Issue 4

Cadmium impact on the phytotoxicity of lead to spring barley Hordeum vulgare

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Jurate Zaltauskaite et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

The aim of the study was to determine cadmium influence on the lead phytotoxicity to spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). The seedlings of H. vulgare were treated with single Pb (ranging from 0.1 to 100 mg l-1) and Pb mixture with Cd. Plant biomass production, physiological response, induction of...

accumulation Barley +4 more

Study of mercury behavior and earthworm bioassays in three solid environment components from selected areas of Eastern Slovakia

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Dr. Oľga Šestinová et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

A 28-day bioassay with the earthworm (Dendrobaena veneta) was used to assessing the ecotoxic effect of mercury in study soils and sediments. This article deals with quality evaluation of the soils, sediments and plants (assimilation organs) from three localities, Rudňany, Krompachy, and water...

Soil sediment +3 more

Al (III) removal from wastewaters by natural clay and coconut shell

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Meral Yurtsever et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

This paper describes the adsorption of Al3+ ions from aqueous solutions, by natural clay (from Sakarya's Yenigün district) and coconut shell modified by means of acid treatment. Batch experiments were carried out to determine the effect of various factors such as initial pH (4-9), temperature (20...

Adsorption Aluminium +3 more

Simple and low cost dithizone-functionalized polymer membranes as a tool for mercury preconcentration and monitoring in aqueous bodies. Preliminary results using X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES).

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Nikolaos Kallithrakas-Kontos et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

Here the effectiveness of cation selective membranes, produced for divalent mercury (Hg2+) preconcetration from aqueous bodies, is examined. To this end, the behavior of PVC-based membranes, functionalized with dithizone for mercury complexation, is examined by means of Energy Dispersive X-ray...

Hg Mercury +5 more

Municipal Sewage Sludge application on cotton cultivations. Effect on yields soil chemical properties and heavy metal concentrations

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Eleftherios Evangelou et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

Application of municipal sewage sludge (MSS) to agricultural soils is a current practice in EU. European legislation permits its use in agriculture when concentrations of metals in soil do not exceed the maximum permissible limits. In order to study the influence of MSS on cotton yield and soil...

Municipal sewage sludge Cotton +3 more

The Heavy Metal Hazard of undiscovered World War I and II graves in Poland

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Kaczmarek, B. et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

The purpose of this research is to identify and characterize the poorly investigated problem of heavy metal contamination originating from World War I and II mass graves. Chemical elements pass systematically into the soil from metal weapons, buttons, badges, and other objects. As a result, the soil...

Mass graves pollution of heavy metal +1 more

Use of two different approaches to the synthesis of nano zero valent iron for sediment remediation

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Djurdja Kerkez et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

Heavy metals are one of the main pollutants of river, lake and canal sediments. Stabilization technology proved to be an effective method for solving this problem. Stabilization covers a wide range of remediation techniques that are used to transform waste into forms that will be less problematic...

Heavy metals NZVI +2 more

Ulva australis as a tool for monitoring metal-polluted estuarine system; spatial and temporal considerations

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Daniela R Farias et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

This study investigated temporal and spatial patterns of heavy metal content in Ulva australis. Samples were collected from the Derwent Estuary, Tasmania, Australia, over 3 years (2013-2015) at locations where historically arsenic, cadmium, lead and zinc were high in sediments and seawater. Zinc and...

Biological indicators Biomonitoring +4 more

Heavy metals risk assessment in water and bottom sediments of ICOLLs in Northern Poland

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Aleksander Astel et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

Natural diversity of intermittently closed and open lakes and lagoons (ICOLLs) depends on mutual interactions of several factors: (i) an impact of sea water and land background; (ii) temporary meteorological situation; (iii) hydrological conditions; and (iv) the shape of lake basin. However, some...

Baltic Sea coastal lakes and lagoons +3 more

Study of potential availability of heavy metals to phytoremediation to use of ash from biomass combustion

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Galas D. et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

Ashes, formed as a result of combustion of biomass are a new class of by-products of combustion and due to the large variety of these materials their chemical composition has not been fully determined. Their use is limited, despite the fact that their production has increased. This work presents the...

aided phytostabilization biomass ash +3 more

Cadmium accumulation and its effects on physiological characteristics of Arundo donax L. in a simulated wetland

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Gaozhong Pu et al. View all

CEST2017 - Heavy metals in the environment

A simulated wetland experiment was used to investigate the effect of cadmium (Cd) on the growth of Arundo donax, as well as its photosynthetic characteristics and antioxidant enzyme activities. Cd accumulation in the order of stem < roots < leaves increased gradually with increasing Cd...

Arundo donax Antioxidant enzymes +2 more