Contamination of soils with heavy metals (HMs) is an important issue due to the contamination of agricultural crops, which are further transferred into the food chain. Phytoremediation is an emerging method of remediating metal-contaminated soils. Sunflower has
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Get Price1995/4/1Abstract. Soils contaminated with lead and copper from three industrial-waste sites were characterized for particle-size distribution, heavy metal (Pb, Cu) content by particle size, sequential extraction for metal speciation, scanning electron microscopy for morphology, and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (SEM/EDX) for chemical composition.
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