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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.
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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.

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Antimony(III) Binding to Humic Substances: Influence of pH and Type of Humic Acid

TL;DR: Under environmentally relevant conditions, over 30% of total Sb(III) may be bound to natural organic matter, suggesting that different functional groups are involved and/or different degrees of stabilization by chelation or H-bridges.
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Antimony in the soil-plant system - a review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the available literature on Sb uptake by plants and toxicity risks arising from soil contamination by Sb and found that Sb is generally taken up by terrestrial plants in proportion to the concentration of soluble Sb in soil over a concentration range covering five or more orders of magnitude.
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Mobility of metals and metalloids in a multi-element contaminated soil 20 years after cessation of the pollution source activity.

TL;DR: Soil pore water under field conditions was analysed to provide new insights into the mobility of residual contaminants in the surface 50 cm of a highly contaminated woodland soil, with Cadmium and Zn showing considerable downward mobility.
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Arsenic and antimony contamination of waters, stream sediments and soils in the vicinity of abandoned antimony mines in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the environmental effects of the abandoned Sb mines on water, stream sediment and soil since the mines are situated in the close vicinity of residential areas.
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Accumulation of potentially toxic elements in road deposited sediments in residential and light industrial neighborhoods of Singapore.

TL;DR: Road deposited sediments (RDS) are a valuable environmental medium for characterizing contaminant levels in urban areas; and their associated potentially toxic elements (PTEs) can directly impact both human and aquatic health.
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