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Strontium (Sr) - Chemical properties, Health and Environmental effects
Applications Strontium has uses similar to those of calcium and barium, but it is rarely employed because of its higher cost. Principal uses of strontium compounds ... . Strontium compounds can move through the environment fairly easily, because many of the compounds are water-soluble. Strontium is always present in air as dust, up to a certain level. Strontium ...
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PRB Flow Characteristics
The second, located near Chalk River, Ontario, was constructed to remediate a plume contaminated with Strontium-90. This PRB combines the technologies of a cut-off wall, a reactive barrier ... plumes. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds. Battelle Press, Columbus, OH. Researcher Scott Sale, M.Sc., Candidate GGR Group Home Earth ...
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Pretty skies pretty poisonous
"Fireworks can contain carcinogenic sulphur-coal compounds and spread an odour of black gunpowder. Radioactive barium makes the green sparkling colour and considerable amounts of strontium are also spread" says O’Brien ...
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..:: desalination 198
Jolanta Kozlowska, Witalis Pellowski, Wladyslaw Walkowiak (Wroclaw, Poland) Separation of cobalt-60, strontium-90, and cesium 137 radioisotopes by competitive transport across polymer inclusion membranes ... Modified poly(phenylene oxide) membranes in ultrafiltration and micellar enhanced ultrafiltration of organic compounds 198(2006)215-224 Full Text Florian G. Reissmann, Wolfgang Uhl (Dresden, ...
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Freshwater Website: Water Pollution (Water quality pollutants)
Water quality pollutants Non-persistent (degradable) domestic sewage fertilizers some industrial wastes These compounds can be broken down by chemical reactions or by natural bacteria into simple ... industrial) petroleum and petroleum products PCBs, dioxins, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) radioactive materials such as strontium-90, cesium-137, radium-226, and uranium metals such as lead, mercury, ...
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Ecological Engineering Group
Chlorinated pesticides (PCP, 2,4-D) · Other chlorinated compounds (PCBs, TCE) · Explosives (TNT, DNT) · Organophosphate insecticides (diazanon and parathion) · Surfactants ( ... (accumulates nickel) · Compositae family (symbiotic with Arthrobacter bacteria, accumulates cesium and strontium) · Ordinary tomato and alpine pennycress (accumulates lead, zinc and cadmium) ...
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Ecological Engineering Group
Chlorinated pesticides (PCP, 2,4-D) · Other chlorinated compounds (PCBs, TCE) · Explosives (TNT, DNT) · Organophosphate insecticides (diazanon and parathion) · Surfactants ( ... (accumulates nickel) · Compositae family (symbiotic with Arthrobacter bacteria, accumulates cesium and strontium) · Ordinary tomato and alpine pennycress (accumulates lead, zinc and cadmium) ...
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SBN Feature Article: April 1998
Chernobyl, sunflowers removed 95% of the pond's radioactive cesium and strontium within ten days. At a Department of Energy (DOE) facility in Ohio sunflowers ... metabolize contaminants, a process that is significantly aided by enzymes secreted by particular plants. Compounds degraded in this way include petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated pesticides, chlorinated solvents and explosives. ...
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Eichornia crassipes
... roots naturally absorb pollutants, including such toxic chemicals as lead, mercury, and strontium 90 (as well as some organic compounds believed to be carcinogenic) in concentrations 10,000 times that in the ...
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Chemical elements and their interaction with water
H2O) Silver in water (Ag + H2O) Sodium in water (Na + H2O) Strontium in water (Sr + H2O) Tin in water (SN + H2O) Titanium in water ... solubility of these elements and what are the most important compounds? Why are certain elements present in water? What are the ... ? What are the health effects of specific elements and their compounds in water? Which water purification technologies can be applied for ...
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