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The accumulation of a trace metal in rice grain is not only affected by the total concentration of the soil trace metal, but also by crop variety and related soil properties, such as soil pH, soil organic matter (SOM) and so on. However, these factors were seldom considered in previous studies on mapping the pollution risk of trace metals in paddy soil at a regional scale. In this study, the sp...

Twenty-eight tidal creeks were sampled along the South Carolina coast in the summer of 1995 to determine the levels of sediment trace metal contamination associated with different types and varying levels of human development in their watersheds. The particle size and total organic carbon (TOC) content of creek sediments in developed watersheds (i.e., industrial, urban, and suburban) were simil...

In assessing the distributions of trace metals in aquatic environments as a prerequisite to any study of the variation of local toxic metal contamination over space and time, it is tempting to measure dissolved and/or sediment concentrations. A third and preferred alternative, however, is the measurement of accumulated trace metal concentrations in selected organisms, termed biomonitors. Such c...

heavy metal concentration in the soils and sediments has increased worldwide during the last century due to the mining, smelting, and industrial activities. the forumad chromite deposit is located in the sabzevar ophiolitic complex (soc), with a long history of mining activities, yet very little is known about the heavy metal contamination in its surrounding environment. in this research work, ...

Observations give evidences of the presence of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM). The stars responsible for transforming hydrogen and helium into more complex atoms do not form outside the galaxies in the standard scenario of galaxy formation. Supernovae– driven winds and their associated feedback was proposed as a possible solution to explain such enrichment of the IGM. It turned out th...

The atmospheric particulate matter of industrialised cities have become a mixture of potentially basic substances whose concentration have to be monitored to assess the pollution levels. Anthropogenic elements, particularly trace metal, are part of these pollutants and the knowledge of their total concentration in the air is necessary to evaluate the pollution risk in term of maximum levels and...

Heterotrophic bacteria in the SAR11 and Roseobacter lineages shape the marine carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur cycles, yet they do so having adopted divergent ecological strategies. Currently, it is unknown whether these globally significant groups partition into specific niches with respect to micronutrients (e.g., trace metals) and how that may affect marine trace metal cycling. Here...

The combination of gas-phase oxygen abundances and stellar metallicities can provide us with unique insights into the metal enrichment histories galaxies. In this work, we compare measured within a 1$R_{e}$ aperture for representative sample 472 star-forming galaxies extracted from SAMI Galaxy Survey. We confirm that interstellar medium (ISM) are strongly correlated, scatter $\sim$3 times small...