Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Heavy Metals

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Academic Editor

Hosam M. Saleh
Hosam M. Saleh

Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority,
Egypt

Co-editor

Refaat F. Aglan
Refaat F. Aglan

Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority,
Egypt

Published 27 June 2018

Doi 10.5772/intechopen.71185

ISBN 978-1-78923-361-2

Print ISBN 978-1-78923-360-5

eBook (PDF) ISBN 978-1-83881-533-2

Copyright year 2018

Number of pages 412

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Introductory Chapter: Introducing Heavy Metals

By Martin Koller and Hosam M. Saleh

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1,421
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1,906
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4. Strategic Design of Heavy Metals Removal Agents through Zeta Potential Measurements

By Eduardo Alberto López-Maldonado and Mercedes Teresita Oropeza-Guzmán

1,670
1
1,588
5
6. Impact of Heavy Metals on Forest Ecosystems of the European North of Russia

By Irina Lyanguzova, Vasily Yarmishko, Vadim Gorshkov, Natalie Stavrova and Irina Bakkal

1,497
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7. Environmental Contamination by Heavy Metals

By Vhahangwele Masindi and Khathutshelo L. Muedi

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10. Phytoremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Water

By Randhir Kumar and Tarun Kumar Banerjee

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12. Phytoremediation: Halophytes as Promising Heavy Metal Hyperaccumulators

By Kamal Usman, Mohammad A. Al-Ghouti and Mohammed H. Abu- Dieyeh

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14. The Thermodynamics of Heavy Metal Sorption onto Lignocellulosic Biomass

By Carlos Escudero-Oñate and Isabel Villaescusa

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15. Removal of Heavy Metals Using Adsorption Processes Subject to an External Magnetic Field

By Ma. del Rosario Moreno Virgen, Omar Francisco González Vázquez, Virginia Hernández Montoya and Rigoberto Tovar Gómez

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16. Biosorbents in the Metallic Ions Determination

By Absolon C. da Silva Júnior, Alessa G. Siqueira, Carolina A. de Sousa e Silva, Jordana de Assis N. Oliveira, Nívia M.M. Coelho and Vanessa Nunes Alves

1,448
17. Heavy Metals in Urban Dust

By Fumiyuki Nakajima and Rupak Aryal

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2,102
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21. Heavy Metal Pollution as a Biodiversity Threat

By Efraín Tovar-Sánchez, Isela Hernández-Plata, Miguel Santoyo Martínez, Leticia Valencia-Cuevas and Patricia Mussali Galante

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