1. Overview of Significance 2. Sources and Characteristics of Particulate Material 3. Colloid and Sediment Dynamics in Surface Water Systems 3.1. Colloid Aggregation and Settling 3.2. Sediment Resuspension 4. Colloid Dynamics in Groundwater Systems 5. Contaminant Sources 6. Trace Elements Fate and Transport 7. Fate and Transport of Hydrophobic Organic Contaminants 8. Conclusions Glossary Biblio...

The term biomineral refers not only to a mineral produced by organisms, but also to the fact that almost all of these mineralized products are composite materials comprised of both mineral and organic components. Furthermore, having formed under controlled conditions, biomineral phases often have properties such as shape, size, crystallinity, isotopic and trace element compositions quite unlike...

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Plants acquire essential trace elements from the rhizosphere and must adapt to conditions that can range from deficiency to excess. Knowledge of how trace elements move from root to shoot to seed is critical for agriculture and human nutrition.

We determined the elemental profile of 16 edible mushroom species from the Făget Forest, near Cluj-Napoca, and of 12 species from the Apuseni Mountains. Oneway ANOVA showed no difference in the elemental content of mushrooms when the two regions were compared. Some species accumulated high amounts of trace elements, i.e. Boletus edulis (Ag, S, Zn), Macrolepiota procera (Cu), Lactarius volemus (...

Multi element analysis of homogenised samples taken from three different areas of a single human liver was performed for 18 elements by proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE). Small (10--20%) but statistically significant variations between the element contents of these areas were found for Cl, K, Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Br, Rb and Mo. These differences are not parallel to each other. The variation of el...

tashtab mountain is located 25 km from the city of khur in northeastern isfahan province. several bentonite mines formed in this area as a result of the eocene volcanic alteration. these mines are classified as the khur bentonite horizon. studies on trace elements in parent rock and clays show that the studied bentonites formed from andesite-basaltic parent rocks. the xrd analysis shows that st...