Soil remediation and plants : prospects and challenges /
The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants. Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered seriou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London, England ; Waltham, Massachusetts :
AP,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The soil is being contaminated continuously by a large number of pollutants. Among them, heavy metals are an exclusive group of toxicants because they are stable and difficult to disseminate into non-toxic forms. The ever-increasing concentrations of such pollutants in the soil are considered serious threats toward everyone's health and the environment. Many techniques are used to clean, eliminate, obliterate or sequester these hazardous pollutants from the soil. However, these techniques can be costly, labor intensive, and often disquieting. Phytoremediation is a simple, cost effective, e. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (771 pages) : illustrations (some color), graphs |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780127999135 0127999132 0128100672 9780128100677 |