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Antimony in the environment: a review focused on natural waters: I. Occurrence
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Antimony is ubiquitously present in the environment as a result of natural processes and human activities as discussed by the authors and is considered to be priority pollutants interest by the USEPA and the EU.About:
This article is published in Earth-Science Reviews.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 1051 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antimony & Antimonite.read more
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Antimony uptake by Zea mays (L.) and Helianthus annuus (L.) from nutrient solution
TL;DR: Investigating the extent of Sb uptake by maize and sunflower from nutrient solutions containing concentrations from 3 to 24 mg/L of potassium antimonate found no significant difference between species, suggesting Sb is unlikely to pose a health risk to animals and humans.
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Antimony mobility in lead smelter-polluted soils.
Vojtěch Ettler,Václav Tejnecký,Václav Tejnecký,Martin Mihaljevič,Ondřej Šebek,Milan Zuna,Aleš Vaněk +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the geochemical properties of Sb in the forest and agricultural soils in the vicinity of the Přibram Pb smelter (Czech Republic), with emphasis on Sb distribution, chemical fractionation and comparison with the behaviour of another toxic metalloid, arsenic (As).
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Speciation of antimony in PET bottles produced in Japan and China by X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy.
TL;DR: It was concluded that the leaching behavior of Sb into water is primarily due to the degradation of PET itself, but is not related to the Sb species in the PET bottles.
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Antimony interactions with heterogeneous complexants in waters, sediments and soils: A review of binding data for homologous compounds
TL;DR: Antimony binding by NOM and inorganic colloids has been studied in this paper, where it has been shown that antimony adsorption by iron oxides in acidic media takes place via an inner-sphere surface interaction, with the formation of Fe-O-Sb bonds.
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Removal of antimony (III) from polluted surface water using a hybrid coagulation–flocculation–ultrafiltration (CF–UF) process
TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid coagulation-flocculation-ultrafiltration (CF-UF) process was developed to remove antimony (III) from polluted surface water, and the process parameters, including the ferric coagulant (FC) dose, pH and initial contaminant loading, were systematically optimized.
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