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Heavy metals in the aquatic environment: Proceedings of the international conference held in Nashville, Tennessee, December 1973 (Progress in water technology : Supplement) by P. A. Krenkel; sponsored by the International Association on Water Pollution Research, the Sport Fishing Institute, and the Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at Vanderbilt University is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Heavy Metals in the Aquatic Environment contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Nashville, Tennessee in December 1973. This conference is co-sponsored by the International Association on Water Pollution Research, the Sport Fishing Institute, the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association, and Vanderbilt University's Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Contributors focus on the hazards posed by heavy metals present in the aquatic environment and how to control them. This text consists of 45 chapters divided into eight sections. This book assesses the environmental impact of heavy metals found in the aquatic environment; the economic impact of removing them from waste effluents; and the costs vs. benefits attained by their removal. The social costs are also evaluated. After an introduction to dose-response relationships resulting from human exposure to methylmercury compounds, the discussion turns to the toxicity of cadmium in relation to itai-itai disease; the effects of heavy metals on fish and aquatic organisms; and the analytical methods used for measuring concentrations of methylmercury and other heavy metals. The next sect

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Author
P. A. Krenkel; sponsored by the International Association on Water Pollution Research, the Sport Fishing Institute, and the Department of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at Vanderbilt University
Publisher
Oxford ; New York: Pergamon Press
Published
1975
Language
EN
ISBN
9780080180687
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Biology, Stem

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