aims: in the past few decades, more attention has been paid to clean up soils polluted with heavy metals by plants. a serious problem in this way is the amount of heavy metals uptake by plants. this study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of 3 local plants of mazandaran province, iran, in reducing and controlling the soil’s heavy metals. instrument & methods: the removal amount of thr...

The results of this study indicate that proper amalgam removal and, in some cases, removal of all the other metals and replacement with biocompatible composites can eliminate or reduce 80% of the classic symptoms of chronic mercury poisoning. These results also show that the strength of an individual’s serum-globulin reaction, to many metals used in dentistry, especially the five metals present...

the objective of this study was to explore the application of hybrid artificial neural network methods to predict heavy metals in rainwater based on major elements. measurements of the heavy metals pb, cu, zn, as, ni, hg, and fe in soluble rain fractions were performed in rainwater collected at the arak plain during the rainy seasons of 2012. in the soluble fractions, the concentrations of the ...

background: in the current study,the hazard quotient, the hazard index (hi) and spatial variations of fe,mn,cu and cr in drinking water sources of andimesk-shush, khuzestan province, southern iranaquifer were assessed. methods: we compared theconcentrations of aforementioned heavy metals in wells and springs inandimeshk and shush regions. the non-carcinogenic risk assessment of heavy metals was...

Aquatic macrophytes are unchangeable biological filters and they carry out purification of the water bodies by accumulating dissolved metals and toxins in their tissue. In view of their potential to entrap several toxic heavy metals, 45 macrophytes belonging to 8 families collected from two different physiographic locations (36 from Sevan Lake, Armenia; 9 from Carambolim Lake, Old Goa, India) w...

The extended Hubbard Hamiltonian on a bcc lattice is studied at half-filling and for a finite hopping between next-nearest-neighbours, in mean-field approximation. An ionic insulating broken-symmetry phase is predicted for any hydrogenoid bcc solid in the density range 1.0 < r s < 2.6. The occurrence of an ionic phase would explain the failure to achieve hydrogen metallization at high pressures...

Coastal reclamation has been carried out along the coastal areas near Shenzhen, China in a large scale since 1980s by dumping fill materials over the marine mud at the sea bottom. Usually the area to be reclaimed is drained first and some of the mud is airdried for a few weeks before it is buried by fill. After reclamation, the terrestrial groundwater, which is relatively acidic and with high d...

Heavy metal content was determined in selected vegetables cultivated in some highland and lowland areas in Peninsular Malaysia. Leafy vegetables were represented by convolvulus (Ipomoea aquatica) and green mustard or sawi (Brassica rapa var. parachinensis), tubers and bulbs by sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and onion (Allium cepa), and fruity vegetables by chilly (Capsicum annuum), brinjal (Sol...

We present a general method for calculating the stacking-fault energy in simple metals, and then we apply this to the ( 1 1 2 ) faults in body-centred cubic (BCC) metals. Our method contains no approximations for a given wavenumber characteristic (or equivalently the pair potential). Our results show that metastable faults do indeed exist in the simple BCC metals (Li, Na. K, Rb, Cs, Ca. Sr, Ba)...

Aneuploidy has recently been proposed as an initiating event for carcinogenesis. There is significant evidence that carcinogenic metals induce aneuploidy. Here we review the mechanisms for how carcinogenic metals may induce aneuploidy and the evidence that carcinogenic metals induce an aneugenic effect which can destabilize the genome leading to genomic instability and cancer.