"Heavy Metals" ed. by Hosam El-Din M. Saleh

This volume is dedicated to fundamental societal changes resulted from the necessity of people to get organized in mining, transporting, processing, and circulating the heavy metals and their follow-up products, which in consequence resulted in a differentiation of society into diversified professions and even societal strata.

Heavy metals are highly demanded technological materials, which drive welfare and progress of the human society, and often play essential metabolic roles. However, their eminent toxicity challenges the field of chemistry, physics, engineering, cleaner production, electronics, metabolomics, botany, biotechnology, and microbiology in an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial manner. Today, all these scientific disciplines are called to dedicate their efforts in a synergistic way to avoid exposure of heavy metals into the eco- and biosphere, to reliably monitor and quantify heavy metal contamination, and to foster the development of novel strategies to remediate damage caused by heavy metals.

Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Introducing Heavy Metals
2 Cadmium Iodate Syntheses and Characterization
3 Removal of Heavy Metals Using Bentonite Clay and Inorganic Coagulants
4 Strategic Design of Heavy Metals Removal Agents through Zeta Potential Measurements
5 Short-Term Response of Plants Grown under Heavy Metal Toxicity
6 Impact of Heavy Metals on Forest Ecosystems of the European North of Russia
7 Environmental Contamination by Heavy Metals
8 Estimate of Heavy Metals in Soil Using Combined Geochemistry and Field Spectroscopy in Miyi Mining Area
9 Tempospatial Distribution, Gas: Solid Partition, and Long-Range Transportation of Atmospheric Mercury at an Industrial City and Offshore Islands
10 Phytoremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Water
11 Phytoremediation and Physiological Effects of Mixed Heavy Metals on Poplar Hybrids
12 Phytoremediation: Halophytes as Promising Heavy Metal Hyperaccumulators
13 Assessment of Heavy Metals in Landfill Leachate: A Case Study of Thohoyandou Landfill, Limpopo Province, South Africa
14 The Thermodynamics of Heavy Metal Sorption onto Lignocellulosic Biomass
15 Removal of Heavy Metals Using Adsorption Processes Subject to an External Magnetic Field
16 Biosorbents in the Metallic Ions Determination
17 Heavy Metals in Urban Dust
18 Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals on Primary School Learners from Dust and Soil within School Premises in Lagos State, Nigeria
19 Heavy Metal in Urban Soil: Health Risk Assessment and Management
20 Heavy Metal Pollution of Ecosystem in an Industrialized and Urbanized Region of the Republic of Azerbaijan
21 Heavy Metal Pollution as a Biodiversity Threat