Different contaminants are released to wastewater with the rapid industrialization of human society, including heavy metal ions, organics, bacteria, viruses, and so on, which are serious harmful to human health. Among all water contaminations, heavy metal ions, such as Pb2+, Cd2+, Zn2+, Ni2+ and Hg2+, have high toxic and nonbiodegradable properties, can cause severe health problems in animals a...

Metallic elements, ions and compounds produce varying degrees of toxicity in organisms with which they come into contact. Metal speciation is critical to understanding these adverse effects; the adjectives "heavy" and "toxic" are not helpful in describing the biological properties of individual elements, but detailed chemical structures are. As a broad generalization, the metallic form of an el...

An ex-situ experiment to assess the metal extractive potential of fourteen agriculture plants (Vigna unguiculata, Gossypium hirsutum, Jatropha curcas, etc.) was conducted on Magnesite mines which had above permissible levels of Cadmium and Lead. There was no much difference in the total chlorophyll a and b, carbohydrate and protein contents in the plants grown in the mining soil and adjacent co...

background: the development of toxicity tests regarding toxic responses of different fish species could be more effectively used in predictive toxicology and risk assessment. in this study lethal concentrations (lc50-96 h) values of copper sulphate an important toxic industrial pollutant, on capoeta fusca were determined. behavioral changes at different concentrations of cuso4 were determined f...

background and purpose: determination of heavy metals in oils is necessary to establish quality standards on a country level. this study aimed to determine of heavy metal contents (cr, ni, as, cd, hg, pb, sb, sn, sr, al) in 12 seed oil samples in iran by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (icp-oes). materials and methods: the concentrations of heavy metal were determined b...

Of all the aquatic organisms, algae are a good source of biomolecules. Since algae contain pigments, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, nucleic acids and secondary metabolites such as alkaloids, some aromatic compounds, macrolides, peptides and terpenes, they act as reducing agents to produce nanoparticles from metal salts without producing any toxic by-product. Once the algal biomolecules are iden...

sewage effluent is the carrier of huge amounts of n (0.09 to 0.16%), p (0.023 to 0.029 %), and k (0.11 to 0.18%) and as well as it is rich in organic carbon (3.27%). transfer of the toxic trace metal (pb) from the contaminated site can be seized out from the food chain through application of feso4.7h2o and caso4 in a larger area. the efficacy of the toxic metal immobilization through an applica...

duckweeds are of special interest, as they are naturally growing weeds that have the capacity to tolerate and remove toxic pollutants, including heavy metals from the environment. studies have revealed that duckweed (lemna minor) can tolerate and remove heavy metals from aqueous solutions. in the present study, the efficiency of l. minor in the removal of ni and cr individually from aqueous sol...

In this study the ability of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, with regard to the biorecovery of heavy metals inshake flask has been investigated. Adaptation experiments with the single metal ions Ni, Co, V, Mo, W anda mixture of the first four metal ions in the medium was developed through serial sub-culturing. Adaptationshowed that A. ferrooxidans could tolerate up to 2.3 g/l ...

Contamination of the environment with heavy metal ions has been an important concern throughout the world for decades. Here we discuss our recent effort on the development of a miniaturized and battery operated ultrasensitive gold nanoparticle based nanomaterial surface energy transfer (NSET) probe for screening toxic metal levels in contaminated soil, water and fish which has excellent sensiti...