The environment is exposed 24/7 to harmful chemical elements. Among these chemicals are heavy metals like mercury, lead, arsenic, and chromium. Without their knowledge, individuals are faced with daily exposure to heavy metal compounds. The most common methods of heavy metal poisoning are inhalation, ingestion, and skin contact. Initial exposure to these harmful metals may [...]
Apparently, Lead is omnipresent – from natural deposits to agricultural soils, from vehicle emission to tap water, from household paints to children toys and what not. Thanks to the era of industrial revolution, this soft, heavy, and malleable, not to mention – toxic, metallic element has become a part and parcel of many commonly used [...]
Lead is a soft, heavy, toxic, malleable, metallic element that was used for many years, and is still used in many countries, in products found in and around our homes. Although the federal government banned lead-based paints from housing in 1978, many homes continue to have lead-based paints. In developing world, lead paints are still [...]
Those who suffer the daily agony of waiting for public transport buses must be pretty aware of the offensively malodorous smoke emitted by those cavalcades of vehicles passing by. What they aren’t aware of is that it is not just the fetid smoke they are taking in, but a perplexed composition of poisonous gases and [...]
Heavy metals are the metallic elements of relatively high density like lead, mercury, arsenic etc. Although these heavy metals are present naturally in rocks and soil but the alarming rise in their levels can be appropriately attributed to unchecked & indiscriminate use of these metals in various commodities like paints, fertilizers, various chemical products like [...]
