Geochemical evaluation of fluoride contamination in groundwater from Shanmuganadhi River basin, South India: implication on human health.

abstract：:Quarry activities are creating diverse stress on biological resources in the rural areas where most of them are located globally. In this study, the effect of quarry activities on elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) leaves and soils around Onigambari Forest Reserve, Oyo State, Nigeria, were investigated. Soil and sa...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ediagbonya TF,Ogunjobi JA,Olutayo OO

更新日期：2020-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban soils in medium- and large-sized cities generally have shown elevated contents of environmentally important trace metals (e.g. lead, copper, zinc). Such high concentrations in soils of green areas, mainly recreational areas, can be a source of potentially toxic elements and pose a risk for human health. Thus the...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Madrid F,Romero AS,Madrid L,Maqueda C

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iodine has long been recognised as an important element environmentally. Despite this there are many gaps in our knowledge of its geochemistry and even where information is available much of this is based on old data which, in the light of recent data, are suspect.Iodine forms few independent minerals and is unlikely ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Fuge R,Johnson CC

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-18 ((18)0) and deuterium isotopes were used to estimate the evaporation from the Aswan High Dam Lake and to investigate the inter-relation between the lake water and adjacent groundwater.According to stable isotopic analysis of samples taken in 1988 and 1989, the lake can be divided into two sections. In the fi...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Aly AI,Froehlich K,Nada A,Awad M,Hamza M,Salem WM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis to assess the water quality and potential ecological risks in sediments was carried out by means of the distribution characteristics of nutrient properties and heavy metals in water, and heavy metals in sediments from the Nanming River. The results from nutrient properties demonstrated that the majority o...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Yuan Z,Li Q,Ma X,Han M

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt is made to synthesize the epidemiological literature and identify salient factors from the multitude of potential antecedents of gastric cancer, factors which to a greater or lesser degree create nonrandom variations in the distribution of the disease. Implicit in this approach is the notion that observatio...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Matthews SA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock wastewater effluent generated after the anaerobic treatment process contains the considerable amount of color-causing organic matter. In this study, a quantitative comparison of three carbon-based adsorbents included granular activated carbon (GAC), expanded graphite (EG), and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kim H,Yun YM,Lim KH,Do QC,Kang S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyto- and bioremediation are perspective methods for soil recultivation. In spite of resistance of plant-hyperaccumulators and degrading microorganisms to some contaminants, there are soil toxicity limits for their growth and activity. Therefore, simple and express methods are needed to estimate the soil phytotoxicit...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Vasilyeva GK,Kondrashina VS,Strijakova ER,Pinsky DL

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered organo-mineral composites were synthesized from date palm waste biochar and silica or zeolite via mechanochemical treatments. Date palm tree rachis (leaves) waste biomass was pre-treated with silica or zeolite minerals via ball milling and sonication prior to pyrolysis at 600 °C. The resultant organo-minera...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ahmad M,Ahmad M,Usman ARA,Al-Faraj AS,Abduljabbar A,Ok YS,Al-Wabel MI

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) increased gradually because of the rise in global food demand that triggered the agriculture sector to increase the production, leading to OPP residues in the surface water. This study elucidated the presence of OPPs and estimated its ecological risk in the riverin...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zainuddin AH,Wee SY,Aris AZ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct estimation of the value of the diffusion component of mass transfer of pollutants in arable soil horizons is an important task of scientific and applied importance. The values of effective diffusion coefficients of 60Co radionuclide (Deff) in water-saturated samples of different soils with disturbed structu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Anisimov VS,Dikarev DV,Kochetkov IV,Ivanov VV,Anisimova LN,Tomson AV,Korneev YN,Frigidov RA,Sanzharov AI

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baicalin (BC)-rare earth metal complexes [BMCs (BC-Ce, BC-La, and BC-Y)] were synthesized by a complexation coordination method. A mouse tumor model with SMMC-7721 cells was used to examine BMCs for their anti-tumor activities in vivo. The results show that the three new BMCs, Na3Ce (C21H16O11)3·10H2O, Na2La (C21H16O1...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Guo M,Gao X,Song H,Gu Y,Christie P,Wu S,Fan X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural dissolved organic matter (DOM) in groundwater plays a crucial role in mobilizing arsenic (As). The complex contribution of DOM sources makes it hard to predict how the variation of environmental conditions would affect the distribution of As concentrations. Identifying the carbon isotope fractionation of DOM i...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zhang Y,Gan Y,Yu K,Han L

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of heavy metal contents in environmental sectors is important to estimate the carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic doses and risks for the mankind associated with it. The present work deals with the assessment of the risk exposure related to heavy metal contents in groundwater and soil samples to two diffe...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kaur M,Kumar A,Mehra R,Kaur I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potentially toxic elements (PTEs, i.e., Cd, Ni, Cr) and their source apportionment in waters are of major environmental concern. Different approaches can be used to evaluate PTEs sources in environment, but single-way approaches are often limited and can easily fail. PTEs sources apportionment should include the evalu...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Binda G,Pozzi A,Livio F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drinking groundwater containing naturally occurring elevated concentrations of fluoride has given rise to extensive dental and skeletal fluorosis affecting many millions of people in China. This paper describes three sets of indicators useful for environmental and human fluorosis management purposes, namely, descripti...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Yang L,Peterson PJ,Williams WP,Wang W,Li R,Tan J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations were determined in 16 topsoils (0-10 cm) collected across the site of a former tar works in NE England. The soils were prepared in the laboratory to two different particle size fractions: <250 μm (fraction A) and >250 μm to <2 mm (fraction B). Sixteen priority PAHs ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lorenzi D,Cave M,Dean JR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dechlorane Plus (DP) is a high-production volume, chlorinated flame retardant comprising two major isomers, syn- and anti-DP. In this study, levels of DP were measured in soil and earthworm samples in farmland from a typical E-waste dismantling area in China. The concentrations of total DP ranged from 0.17 to 1,990 ng...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xiao K,Wang P,Zhang H,Shang H,Li Y,Li X,Ren D,Chen W,Zhang Q

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total content of trace elements was examined in some arable soils developed from boulder loam and silt formations of the Middle Poland and Baltic glaciations (62 profiles). Mean element concentrations calculated on the basis of chemical and statistical analyses were as follows: Mn = 322; Zn = 36; Cr = 30; Ni = 12....

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Czarnowska K,Gworek B

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are limited data on trace metals in the fishes of the Tibetan Plateau. In this study, 62 fish samples were collected from six alpine lakes and a river to investigate the levels and spatial variations of trace metals across the Tibetan Plateau. The concentrations of nine trace elements in fish samples were measur...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Yang R,Zhang S,Wang Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brick tea contains high concentration of fluoride. The aim of the present work was to explore whether and how the brick tea is a risk factor for dental caries and dental fluorosis among Tibetan children in Ganzi. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 368 12-year-old Tibetan children in Ganzi. Dental caries was me...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zhang R,Cheng L,Zhang T,Xu T,Li M,Yin W,Jiang Q,Yang Y,Hu T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of bench scale laboratory column tests were carried out using a newly designed and developed electrokinetic cell to investigate the fundamental behavior of zinc-spiked kaolin clay subjected to an electric field. Laboratory investigations focused on (i) zinc migration by the combined effects of electromigratio...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lee MH,Kamon M,Kim SS,Lee JY,Chung HI

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative distribution of Al between its various organic and inorganic complexes dictates its mobility in the environment, bioavailability, and toxicity. In recent years, there has been significant progress made in understanding the differential bioavailability and toxicity of various chemical species of Al to plan...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Bertsch PM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High concentrations of total arsenic (As) have been measured in soils of gold mining areas of Brazil. However, bioaccessibility tests have not yet been conducted on those materials, which is essential for better health risk estimates. This study aimed at evaluating As bioaccessibility in samples from a gold mining are...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ono FB,Guilherme LR,Penido ES,Carvalho GS,Hale B,Toujaguez R,Bundschuh J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the ecological and human health risks of metal(loid)s (Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cd, Mn, Cr, and As) in peri-urban soils, 43 surface soil samples were collected from the peri-urban area around Nanjing, a megacity in China. The average contents were 1.19, 67.8, 37.6, 105, 167, 44.6, 722, and 50.8 mg kg(-1...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ding Z,Hu X

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mamut Copper Mine (MCM) located in Sabah (Malaysia) on Borneo Island was the only Cu-Au mine that operated in the country. During its operation (1975-1999), the mine produced 2.47 Mt of concentrate containing approximately 600,000 t of Cu, 45 t of Au and 294 t of Ag, and generated about 250 Mt of overburden and wa...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： van der Ent A,Edraki M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two brownfield sites from the city of Wolverhampton were selected from those with a former industrial use, wasteland or areas adjacent to industrial processes. Samples (<2 mm powdered soil fraction) were analysed, using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) for 20 elements. Loss on i...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Thums CR,Farago ME,Thornton I

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known and proven that heavy metal contamination of the soils can severely affect the health of the people living in the contaminated areas given the ease with which trace elements can enter the human body. In addition-to agricultural crop depreciation as well as soil erosion, soil pollution can negatively a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Popa DM,Moldovan M,Prodan D,Aldea C,Lazăr C,Lazea C,Crişan M,Sur LM,Man SC,Borzan C

更新日期：2020-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominant use of coal in power sectors has been associated with adverse environmental impacts. Ambient air monitoring for the two size fractions of particulate matter, respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) and non-respirable suspended particulate matter (NRSPM) in the downwind and upwind directions of a la...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Sharma R,Pervez S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to examine the content of heavy metals and metalloids in the spring water on the territory of Belgrade City and their health risk. This paper presents results of the content and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of aluminum, iron, chromium, manganese, nickel, copper, zinc, arsenic, c...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ulniković VP,Kurilić SM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00