Normal physiological function requires various minerals, including trace amounts of heavy metals such as zinc, copper and iron, as essential elements to maintain the metabolism. Heavy metals enter the body via food, drinking water, and even breathing air, but excessive levels can induce disorders and diseases. The past hundred years of industrialization and technological advances have brought e...

onion (allium cepa l.) is widely used around the world and it is very important vegetable in the slovak republic (sr). six varieties of onion (karmen, kamal, amika, hector, diamant, white dry) were studied and the contents of selected heavy metals, their polyphenol contents as well as the possible correlations among selected heavy metals in soil and onions were analysed. six soil sampling sites...

INTRODUCTION Heavy ion particle radiation is interesting to know biological effects of space radiation. There are problems to assess the magnitude of radiation-induced damages in the astronauts. It is known that the bone minerals reduce after flight, the cause might be estimated by mainly microgravity. However, there are few studies on effects of heavy ion particle irradiation to bone metabolis...

The current study assesses the effect of fibrous clay minerals’ amendments and arbuscular mycorrhiza incubation on heavy metal uptake and translocation in Eucalyptus grandis and Ailanthus altissima plants. For doing so, Eucalyptus and ailanthus trees have been grown in a soil sample, contaminated with heavy metal iron ore mining and collected from southern Iran. The area under study is arid, wi...

land treatment method of municipal and industrial wastewaters for utilization of nutrients in the wastes for raising useful crops and tertiary(or advanced) treatment of the water for improving stream quality or to recharge falling water tables is increasing in some parts of the world, particulary in the arid area. as emphasis in this type of treatment method and prevention of surface and underg...

Heavy minerals (HMs) are used in many high-tech applications (e.g. nuclear reactors, photovoltaic cells, electronics, green, and nano- space technology), thus global demand is increasing day by day. This review article focused on the distribution, genesis, economic geology, exploration exploitation, (i.e. past, present, future status of annual production, consumption, price), (geological indust...

Biowaste, the separately collected organic fraction of municipal solid waste, can be reused for soil conditioning after composting. In this way, environmentally harmful waste management strategies, such as landfilling or incineration, can be reduced. However, frequent application of composts to soil systems may lead to the accumulation of heavy metals in soils, and therefore legal criteria were...