Heavy Metals in Soils Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability /

This book covers the general principles of the occurrence, analysis, soil chemical behaviour and soil-plant-animal aspects of heavy metals and metalloids, followed by more detailed coverage of 21 elements: antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, lead, manganese, mercury,...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Alloway, Brian J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:3rd ed. 2013.
Series:Environmental Pollution, 22
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4470-7
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Section 1: Basic Principles: Introduction.-Sources of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils
  • Chemistry of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils
  • Methods for the Determination of Heavy Metals and Metalloids in Soils
  • Effects of Heavy Metals and Metalloids on Soil Organisms
  • Soil-Plant Relationships of Heavy Metals and Metalloids
  • Heavy Metals and Metalloids as Micronutrients for Plants and Animals.-Critical Loads of Heavy Metals for Soils
  • Section 2:  Key Heavy Metals And Metalloids: Arsenic
  • Cadmium
  • Chromium and Nickel
  • Cobalt and Manganese
  • Copper.-Lead
  • Mercury
  • Selenium
  • Zinc
  • Section 3: Other Heavy Metals And Metalloids Of Potential Environmental Significance: Antimony
  • Barium
  • Gold
  • Molybdenum
  • Silver
  • Thallium
  • Tin
  • Tungsten
  • Uranium
  • Vanadium
  • Glossary of Specialized Terms
  • Index.