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Trace element inputs into soils by anthropogenic activities and implications for human health.
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The possible relations found between some specific soil trace elements, such as Cd, Se, As and others, and cancer incidence and mortality, and diffusion of other important human diseases are reviewed.About:
This article is published in Chemosphere.The article was published on 1999-07-01. It has received 352 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trace element.read more
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Heavy metals in soils : trace metals and metalloids in soils and their bioavailability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the sources of heavy metals and metalloids in Soils and derived methods for the determination of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in soil.
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Trace elements in agroecosystems and impacts on the environment
TL;DR: Soil microorganisms are the first living organisms subjected to the impacts of metal contamination, and changes in microbial biomass, activity, and community structure as a result of increased metal concentration in soil may be used as indicators of soil contamination or soil environmental quality.
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Source identification of heavy metals in pastureland by multivariate analysis in NW Spain.
TL;DR: Arable layer of pastureland in Galicia (NW Spain) was monitored for total content of heavy metals, and analysed by multivariate statistical techniques, in order to investigate the different origin that metals may have in pasture soils.
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Cycling of mercury in the environment: Sources, fate, and human health implications: A review
Felix Beckers,Jörg Rinklebe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes recent recent studies on Hg toxicity and its effects on the human health through the consumption of contaminated fish and rice since methylmercury is a potent neurotoxin and elemental Hg vapor is harmful for the central nervous system.
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Evaluating heavy metal contents in nine composts using four digestion methods.
TL;DR: Analytical results indicated that the nitric acid procedure was the most efficient for recovering Cd, Mn and Ni from most compost samples, and the sulfuric acid procedure yielded the lowest recovery of Pb from the certified reference material and the compost samples.
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Trace elements in soils and plants
TL;DR: The Biosphere The Anthroposphere Soils and Soil Processes Weathering Processes Pedogenic Processes Soil Constituents Trace Elements Minerals Organic Matter Organisms in Soils Trace Elements in Plants.
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Quantitative assessment of worldwide contamination of air, water and soils by trace metals
Jerome O. Nriagu,Jozef M. Pacyna +1 more
TL;DR: Calculated loading rates of trace metals into the three environmental compartments demonstrate that human activities now have major impacts on the global and regional cycles of most of the trace elements.
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Environmental chemistry of the elements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of how to find the shortest path between two points of interest in a set of images. Index Reference Record created on 2004-09-07, modified on 2016-08-08