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Abstract. Solid wastes containing potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are widely generated around the globe. Critical concerns have been raised over their impacts on human health and the environment, especially for the exposure to PTEs during the transfer and disposal of the wastes. It is important to devise highly-efficient and cost-effective ...

Now, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and their collaborators at Oregon State University (OSU) have developed a new method to isolate and study in …

Methods: A list of essential, non-essential/toxic elements, rare earth elements (REEs), and other hi-tech-related elements that are currently considered as emerging environmental pollutants were measured in ready-to-eat baby foods by ICP-MS. Results: Fish purees showed the highest concentrations of mercury (28.1 ng/g) and …

Because these elements are so similar to each other, the process of separating them is time consuming, expensive, and dangerous. Processing one ton of rare earths can produce 2,000 tons of toxic waste. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) may have found a clean …

Methods: A list of essential, non-essential/toxic elements, rare earth elements (REEs), and other hi-tech-related elements that are currently considered as emerging environmental pollutants were measured in ready-to-eat baby foods by ICP-MS. Results: Fish purees showed the highest concentrations of mercury (28.1 ng/g) and arsenic …

Review of Potentially Toxic Rare Earth Elements, Thallium and Tellurium in Plant-based Foods. National Food Institute - Technical University of Denmark, Aik Doulgeridou, H. Amlund, J. J. Sloth, M. Hansen. First published: 26 November 2020. …

Frontiers | Toxicity of rare earth elements: An overview on human health impact. REVIEW article. Front. Environ. Sci., 07 September 2022. Sec. Toxicology, …

During the mid-20th century, rare earth elements were becoming useful in a variety of ways: Cerium ... And a series of toxic waste spills at Mountain Pass brought production at the struggling mine ...

This review sumrises the current knowledge on the concentration of trace metals and metalloids, in plant‐based food products to identify whether a potential health risk occurs. Abstract In the last decades, there is an increasing inclusion of various trace metals and metalloids such as thallium, tellurium and rare earth elements (REEs; …

The rare earth elements (RE) are a group of metals comprised of yttrium, fourteen lanthanide elements, and sometimes scandium. Their unique physical and …

For every ton of rare earth produced, the mining process yields 13kg of dust, 9,600-12,000 cubic meters of waste gas, 75 cubic meters of wastewater, and one ton of radioactive residue. This stems from the fact that rare …

A new compound of curium (a radioactive, rare and costly element) photographed at LLNL during crystallography experiments. The team from LLNL and OSU used the so-called "polyoxometalate ligands" (POMs) to capture rare isotopes and form crystals big enough to be characterized, even when only 1-10 micrograms of the rare isotope are available.

Literature related to rare earth elements was searched in PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar, and the number of literatures was then broken down according to the year. (B) Pie chart summarized the number of literatures for each rare earth element (REEs) eco-toxicity test from 1985–2019. The number of literatures was then broken …

The chief worry is that the rare earth elements are bound up in mineral deposits with the low-level radioactive element thorium, exposure to which has been linked to an increased risk of developing …

In the current review, we focus on the rare earth elements, thallium, and tellurium. It has been documented that they can pass through the gastrointestinal tract and accumulate in the human body causing short‐ or long‐term structural or functional alterations that can eventually lead to a toxic effect. 1.1.

Extensive rare earth element (REE) mining activities have caused REE contamination of ambient agricultural soils, posing threats to associated food webs. Here, a simulated lettuce–snail food chain was conducted to evaluate the trophic transfer characteristics and the consequent effects of REEs on consumers. After 50-day exposure to soil, lettuce …

1. Introduction. Rare earth elements (REE) are a group of 17 metals including the lanthanide series, scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y). They are naturally present in the environment, constituting a chemical group sharing similar characteristics (Feng et al., 2013).The group is divided essentially into three subgroups based on their ionic radii: …

Going big: Unlocking the study of some of the rarest and most toxic elements on Earth. (Download Image) A new compound of curium (a radioactive, rare and costly element) …

The increasing usage of rare earth elements has raised concern about environmental toxicity, which may further cause harmful effects on human health. The …

activities: rare earth elements, human, toxicity, accumulation. The literature search was made up to 28th July 2022 using SCOPUS, PubMed and Google Scholar as the main search engines. We found 135 ...

It's difficult to mine rare earth elements without causing environmental damage because of how they are extracted. One method involves removing topsoil, then creating a leaching pool where chemicals are used to separate out the rare earth elements from the ore. The toxic chemicals can seep into groundwater, cause erosion, and pollute …

Cell & Microbiology. November 15, 2022. How metal-munching microbes help the rare, toxic element tellurium circulate in the environment. by Owen Peter Missen, Barbara Etschmann,...

Elements on the move. Tellurium is as rare as gold in Earth's crust, with only around 1 milligram in each metric tonne of average crustal rock.

Trace elements like arsenic, copper, lead, chromium and germanium as well as rare earth elements (REEs) are of interest because environmental safety and raw material extraction reasons, thus ...

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) are common contaminants found in the water bodies and rare earth elements (REEs) are known as critical technology elements used in various industrial fields, such as production of batteries, computer and monitors, fluorescent lamps, and electronical and medical devices (Costley et al., 2000; Henriques …

The expanding applications of rare earth elements (REEs) in various fields have raised concerns about their biosafety. However, previous studies are insufficient to elucidate their toxic effects and mechanisms of action and whether there are uniform or predictable toxicity patterns among REEs.

The present study has demonstrated that living marine macroalgae can be the basis for an efficient, greener, and low-cost technology to remediate complex effluents composed of potentially toxic elements, rare earth elements, and platinum group metals, which, despite being in levels below the wastewater discharge limits, still reach and ...

The effects of three bioleaching methods for extracting rare earth elements from ion-adsorption type rare earth ore were compared. • Rare earth ores had certain toxic effects on Aspergillus niger strain.. Organic acids produced by the strain have good acidolysis and complexation for leaching.

In the last decades, there is an increasing inclusion of various trace metals and metalloids such as thallium, tellurium and rare earth elements (REEs; lanthanides, scandium, and yttrium) in the composition and production of alloys, in agricultural and medicinal applications, as well as in the manufacturing of hi-tech products.

In the recent decades, rare earth elements (REE) have undergone a steady spread in several industrial and medical applications, and in agriculture. Relatively scarce information has been acquired to date on REE-associated biological effects, from studies of bioaccumulation and of bioassays on animal, plant and models; a few case reports have ...

Combined toxicity of heavy metal and rare earth element (HMREE) mixtures to aquatic biota in the surface sediments of Xincun Lagoon, Hainan Island, South China Sea. RQ is conservative in nature because the established exposure and effect assumptions represent the upper limit of the available toxicity data ( Fig. 4 ; Garber et …

Health effects and toxicity mechanisms of rare earth elements—Knowledge gaps and research prospects. GiovanniPaganoa, MarcoGuidaa, …

The present study tested whether the presence of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) (Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Hg and Ni), commonly found in wastewaters, interferes with the ability of macroalgae (Ulva intestinalis, Ulva lactuca, Fucus spiralis, Fucus vesiculosus, Gracilaria sp. and Osmundea pinnatifida) to remove rare earth elements (REEs) (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Eu, …

Chapter 18 ~Toxic Elements Key Concepts. ... Conversely, the tolerant ecotypes are poor competitors in non-polluted environments, and so are rare in habitats unaffected by metal toxicity. Research into metal-tolerant ecotypes has provided insights into the process of evolution (Chapter 6). Metal-tolerant individuals do occur in populations ...