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Metals and Metalloids
Marine Pollution – Monitoring, Management and Mitigation, pp.101-127
Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, Springer Nature Switzerland, First Edition
05/2023
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Abstract
This chapter introduces you to metalsMetalsand metalloidsMetalloids that are a concern to the health of marine ecosystems. It provides a general chemical understanding of important metals and metalloids, their sources, behaviour, impacts and management. Metals, metalloids and non-metals all make up the periodic table (Appendix II) and are classified into these categories according to their properties. Metals are good conductors of heat and electricity and are malleable and ductile, making them very useful to humans and therefore economically valuable. Metalloids sit on the periodic table in a jagged line at the division between metals and non-metals and have intermediate properties.
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- Title
- Metals and Metalloids
- Creators
- Amanda Reichelt-Brushett - Southern Cross UniversityGraeme Batley - CSIRO
- Publication Details
- Marine Pollution – Monitoring, Management and Mitigation, pp.101-127
- Series
- Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Switzerland
- Edition
- First Edition
- Identifiers
- 991013120904102368
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Author(s). Open Access: This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter