Heavy metals: Toxicity and removal by biosorption

Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 379-442

  Mudhoo, Ackmez ^a   Garg, Vinod Kumar ^b   Wang, Shaobin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biosorption; Cadmium; Chromium; Copper; Freundlich; Green chemistry; Heavy metals; Langmuir; Lead; Nickel; Toxicity; Vermicomposting; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ACTIVATED CARBON TREATMENT; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; ALGAE; BIOMASS; BIOSORPTION; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CARBON; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CHROMIUM; COPPER; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; ION EXCHANGE; LAKE POLLUTION; LEAD; METAL IONS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; NICKEL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOIL POLLUTION; SOLUTIONS; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION; ZINC;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS; FREUNDLICH; GREEN CHEMISTRY; LANGMUIRS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; VERMI-COMPOSTING;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EID: 84931388041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2439-6_10     Document Type: Chapter

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