Cadmium

With only 71 percent of the earths body of water, we have 96.5 percent of ocean resources to meet our current expectations of having a blissful experience along the coastlines. Although this may be true, lately we as consumers are destroying our oceans sustainable body of water, and the sea creature’s life expectancy. Henceforth in the county of Los Angeles specifically, the sustainability of ocean waters are being contaminated by the toxicity of waste being dumped by consumers. Under the…

flourish. The monsoon moisture typically come from the south causing the rain shadow to have most rain fall on the south side. The cold plants do not decompose very quickly causing poor soil. In addition, researchers have found harmful amounts of cadmium and arsenic in the soil. For this reason, animals are not able to get nutrients and feed off the limited…

Selenium: The Essential Element Introduction Over the years, selenium is known to be the essential element in all forms of life. Selenium is a metalloid belonging to the block p, group 16, period 4. It is a gray metallic rare element widely distributed within Earth’s crust which has an atomic number of 34 and a symbol “Se”. Selenium was discovered in 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius and Johan Gottlieb Gahn after analysing an impurity contaminating the sulphuric acid being produced by a factory…

Pollution is a term used to describe mostly particles that are harmful in the air. Many things can cause pollution weather they be human like riding the car instead of taking the bus or natural phenomena like the eruption of a volcano. Pollution can come in many forms; they can be in tiny solids ranging from a few microns to gases floating around in the atmosphere. A recent study shows that pollutants less than 10 microns in diameter are in correlation with people dying of lung and heart…

cause health problems.” (APEC Water) Cadmium occurs naturally, which means it can enter drinking water due to weathering and leaching throughout soils to groundwater. It exists in water as the hydrated ion in inorganic complexes including, carbonates, hydroxides, chlorides, or sulfates. Its organic complexes are with humic acids. Other forms included erosion of soils and bedrock and deposition from factories. Consequences from drinking water contaminated with cadmium include short term and long…

The water quality of the UHS creek was found to have excellent water quality. There are other creeks, however, that have poor water quality. One way humans negatively affect water quality is by fertilizers and pesticide runoff, mainly used by farmers. Fertilizers and pesticides that drain into a river increases the amount of nitrate and phosphate considerably. This leads to a massive amount of algae growth, known as eutrophication. When the algae die, they are broken down by the bacteria which…

The Sami People, Reindeer, and a Shared History My ancestry stems from many countries within Northern Europe, but the largest portion of my lineage descends from Norway. My Norwegian ancestor immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century from central Norway. Thanks to the internet and ancestry search sites, my American family has recently reunited with our Norwegian family and so forth our roots. I was lucky enough to travel to Norway almost ten years ago to visit my new extended…

Among those metals are lead (PB), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr), and arsenic (As). These metals exist broadly throughout the environment and are thought to be the most toxic of the heavy metals associated with human health. “With the development of industrialization and urbanization…

levels will increase and leads to excess algae growth. The algae will then use all of the dissolved oxygen and lead to the death of many organisms (Lenntech, 1998-2016). Another way that water can be polluted is by chemical waste products such copper, cadmium, mercury, zinc, lead, and cyanide. Most of the time chemical waste is accidentally discharged into the water. High concentrations of chemical waste can lead to immediate death or bioaccumulation can occur which will also lead to death of…

The six essential nutrients can be obtained in different ways, a healthy, balanced diet or dietary supplements. When the essential nutrients are not present in a diet, dietary supplements may be turned to for a ‘quick and easy’ shortcut, however it’ll hurt somebody’s health if too many are obtained. Dietary supplement companies are not informing their customers of what is truly in their products, causing contamination and megadoses, however multivitamins are a part of dietary supplements that…