• Cadmium in Australian Potato Tubers and Soils

     · Cadmium (Cd) has been identified as a potential contaminant in foods posing health risks to humans and, in Australia, potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) have been identified as contributing a large proportion of the average dietary Cd assess the concentrations of Cd in Australian potatoes and soil factors likely to lead to high Cd concentrations, commercial crops and soils were .

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  • Impacts of Lead (Pb) on Wildlife

    07/08/2014 · life areas in Some states have issued regulations on lead fishing tackle. In New York, for example, the sale of lead sinkers weighing less than half an ounce is Alternatives to Lead There has been an extensive effort in the development, testing, and regulation of alternatives to leadbased ammunition in

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  • Mute Swan

    Cadmium levels ranged from µg/g in kidney and µg/g in liver, and a significant difference was found between the mean renal concentration of juveniles ( µg/g) and adults ( µg/g). Cadmium concentrations were significantly higher on the .

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  • Reserves and Resources DC World Phosphate Rock

    articles reference Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Commodity Summaries for phosphate rock reserve and reserve base tonnage data. In general, phosphate rock reserves are materials that can be economically produced at the present time using existing technology. Phosphate rock resources include reserves and any other materials of interest that

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  • Cadmium In 1997 Usgs

    Trophic Transfer Of Trace Metals Subcellular Usgs. cadmium in the oligochaete worm Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri was a major factor controlling the assimilation of cadmium by a predator, the decapod crustacean Palaemonetes pugio Wallace amp Lopez 1996, 1997, Wallace et al. 1998.

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  • Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers

    September 6, 1997 Palomar B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, Burns and J. Kavelaars Uranus XVII (Sycorax) Named for Caliban's mother in Shakespeare's "The Tempest." September 6, 1997 Palomar P. Nicholson, B. Gladman, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars Uranus XVIII (Prospero)

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  • Water Year 1997 Annual Report

    ¾¾ 1984, Qualityassurance data for routine water analysis in the laboratories of the Geological Survey for water year 1983: Geological Survey Water .

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  • Cadmium binding in the blood plasma of two marine bivalves ...

     · Cadmium tansport in the plasma of Mytilus edulis L. displays attributes similar to those previously described for Mercenaria mercenaria (L.). The majority of Cr, Cu, Ni, and Zn is partitioned in the plasma rather than the hemocytes in both species, although differences in Fe and Mn are apparent.

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  • Enhancement of the stress response by minute amounts of ...

     · Toxicology. 1997 Jan 15;116(13):2737. Enhancement of the stress response by minute amounts of cadmium in sensitized Reuber H35 hepatoma cells. Wiegant FA(1), van Rijn J, van Wijk R. Author information: (1)Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The aim of this study was to determine whether the cadmiuminduced .

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  • USGS WRIR 004002: Metals Transport in the Sacramento ...

    During flood conditions in January 1997 loads were cadmium, 22 percent; copper, 11 percent; lead, 2 percent; and zinc, 15 percent. During irrigation drainage season from rice fields (MayJune 1997) loads were cadmium, 53 percent; copper, 42 percent; lead, 20 percent; and zinc, 75 percent. These estimates must be qualified by the following factors: (1) metal loads at Colusa in December 1996 and ...

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  • Occurrence and transport of cadmium, lead, and zinc ...

    A waterquality investigation of the Clark ForkPend Oreille and Spokane River Basins began in 1997 as part of the Geological Survey National WaterQuality Assessment Program. As part of the investigation, selected streams in the Spokane River Basin were sampled for trace metals during water years 1999–2001. These data, combined with data collected as part of a Environmental ...

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  • Method holding times used by the National Water ...

    cadmium reductiondiazotization, colorimetry, ASF FCC 30 Patton Gilroy (1999) filtered water nitrate + nitrite 1975 00631 CL048 cadmium reductiondiazotization, colorimetry, ASF FCC 30 Patton Gilroy (1999) filtered water nitrate + nitrite 1990 00631 CL047 acidified, cadmium reductiondiazotization, colorimetry, ASF FCA 30 Patton Gilroy ...

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  • Hepatic cadmium, metalbinding proteins ...

    We examined sublethal responses of juvenile bluegills Lepomis macrochirus to aqueous cadmium in two 28d tests (test I, mu g per liter; test II, mu g Cd per liter) in an intermittentflow diluter. The experimental design was completely randomized, with two replies in each of eight treatments (seven Cd exposures and one water ...

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  • usgs minerals information cadmium

    Cadmium Statistics and Information USGS Cadmium Statistics and Information Cadmium, a soft, malleable, ductile, bluishwhite metal, was discovered in Germany in 1817, and Germany remained the only important producer for 100 years Currently, a large percentage of global cadmium metal production takes place in Asia Cadmium is generally recovered as a byproduct from zinc concentrates

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  • USGS: Statistics and Information: Cadmium | EVISA's Links ...

    Cadmium, a soft, malleable, ductile, bluishwhite metal, was discovered in Germany in 1817 and for 100 years Germany remained the only important producer. Greenockite (CdS), the only cadmium mineral of importance, is nearly always associated with sphalerite (ZnS). Consequently, cadmium is produced mainly as a byproduct from mining, smelting, and refining sulfide ores of zinc, and to a lesser ...

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  • Cadmium, metalbinding proteins, and growth in bluegill ...

    Mean wholebody concentrations of cadmium (– μg∙g wet weight−1) were correlated with cadmium concentration in filtered water (8–72 ng∙L−1), suspended sediment (– μg∙L−1), and bulk sediment. The concentration of hepatic nonthionein cytosolic cadmium (cadmium not bound by metalbinding proteins, MBP) in fish exposed to the two most contaminated sediments ...

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  • Cadmium in plants on polluted soils: Effects of soil ...

     · Cadmium (Cd) is a heavy metal that is of great concern in the environment, because of its toxicity to animals and humans. This article reviews recent papers showing how soil factors (such as pH, phosphate, zinc, and organic matter), Cd hyperaccumulation, and soil amendments affect Cd availability. The studies confirm that the pH of the soil is usually the most important factor that controls ...

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  • StreamSediment Geochemistry in Mining ...

    5–9. Hydrographs of mean daily streamflow at Geological Survey gaging stations on: 5. The Coeur d'Alene and Spokane Rivers during water years 1995, 1996, and 1997 . 7 6. The Coeur d'Alene River at Cataldo, Idaho, during highflow event of February 20, 1995, with riversurface elevation at Geological Survey

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  • CPSC Staff Report on Lead and Cadmium in Chidren's ...

    In October 1997, Greenpeace released a study alleging that hazardous levels of lead and cadmium are present in many popular vinyl children's products. The CPSC staff tested a number of the same products for lead and cadmium that were tested by Greenpeace to evaluate the potential for exposure to children, and the risk created by that exposure. CPSC testing and evaluation indied that the ...

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  • Subtyping of Listeria monocytogenes on the basis of ...

     · The susceptibilities to arsenic and cadmium together with the detection of plasmid DNA were evaluated for use as epidemiological markers for the subtyping of Listeria monocytogenes. Plasmid DNA was detected in 34% of 322 apparently unrelated isolates of L. monocytogenes. The resistance to cadmium and arsenic differentiated 565 apparently unrelated cultures into four groups, the smallest .

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  • An Experimental Study of Molten Salt Electrorefining of ...

     · (1997). An Experimental Study of Molten Salt Electrorefining of Uranium Using Solid Iron Cathode and Liquid Cadmium Cathode for Development of Pyrometallurgical Reprocessing. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 384393.

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  • Chemical Pollution : Ocean Health Index

    Others, such as mercury or cadmium, are not used in normal metabolism and are harmful when taken into the body. Ingesting toxic metals can have serious effects on the kidney, liver, immune system, central nervous system and other organs. Over 90% of methylmercury exposure occurs through the ingestion of contaminated fish and shellfish (USGS 2 ...

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