Biosorption of lead, copper, cadmium, and mercury by brown seaweeds (Sargassum sp. and Turbinaria ornata)
Biosorption is a process that uses inexpensive biomass to sequester toxic heavy metals and is particularly useful for the removal of trace levels of contaminants for industrial effluents. Several types of biomass have been tested for heavy metal sorption capacity which includes bacteria, fungi, alga...
| Published in: | Transactions of the National Academy of Science and Technology Vol. 33, no. 1 (Jul. 2011), 120 |
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2011
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