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    Unless an accident or in case of nuclear war, man is relatively protected from direct radioactive contamination, ie caused by breathing air contaminated by radioactive bodies. Actually, the current main danger comes from the high degree of biological concentration of radioactive along the food chain substances. Thus an indirect radioactive contamination that begins with the warehouse in soil and water of radioactive pollutants from the atmosphere fallen occurs. In animals and plants that draw their

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    The environmental contamination is a most important universal problem in present scenario. Diverse use of pesticides in agricultural usage causes to numerous environmental problems. These pesticide residues in drinking water lead to increasing concern in health prospect. Vast usage of some pesticides contributes to contamination of water bodies mostly, surface and ground water sources. Misuse, accidental spillage, and improper disposal have resulted in extensive groundwater pollution (Edgehill et

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    concentrations are mostly due to the volcanic activity in the Andes Mountains. Mining is also widespread in the region, and copper smelting specifically emits arsenic into the atmosphere. It is difficult to measure mining’s impact on arsenic water contamination because baseline natural levels were not established in the area. Overall, however, arsenic released from mining processes settles mainly in the atmosphere, and studies have shown that drinking water serves as the primary path of exposure of arsenic

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    Kerosene contamination affected soil physicochemical properties such as pH, total phosphorus and microbial biomass which are important indicators for assessing soil quality, fertility and productivity. Findings show that the soil used was a loamy soil and is know to belong to the alfisol series of the USDA soil taxonomic system of classification (Ibia et al., 2002). The study shows that the higher kerosene contamination levels, significantly delayed emergence and inhibited the germination of some

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    In the article, Contamination of drinking-water by Arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency, Allan Smith et al. explain the history of arsenic in water, as well as, potential recommendations from improvement. Before moving further into the article, I would like to provide

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    Air Contamination

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    Air contamination fixing to shorter survival with lung malignancy Presentation to air contamination has for quite some time been connected with an expanded danger of lung growth, and another study proposes it may likewise be fixing to a quicker passing from the infection. Scientists inspected disease registry information on more than 350,000 individuals determined to have lung tumor in California and discovered patients who lived in groups with higher than normal levels of air contamination regularly

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    Waterway Contamination

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    What contaminations in Central Florida waterway oppose quality drinking water? The local area is City of Lake County is acceptable to many Floridians the state’s with fourth largest lake known for bass fishery with many lake beaches for recreational interests such as swimming, boating, and water skiing. The government established the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1986. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to set standards for drinking water quality as well of oversee all states, localities

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    environmental contamination have a major effect on real estate properties? Well environmental contamination turns out can cost the owner of the property or a potential buyer. Environmental contamination on a property may have some implication on the on the property value. Not only could potentially hurt the owner or potential buyer financially it could also do physical damage to the property as well. As a property owner or potential buyer they must be aware of what environmental contamination can do to

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    Organic Contamination

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    nourishments are valuable to our general public or on the off chance that they are really destructive. GMO sustenance is an issue on the grounds that it gives organic contamination and GMO significantly influences to nature and humankind.

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    There are many things to consider as possible challenges when recreating this experiment. Contamination is one of the major ones, if for any given reason human error occurred when taping the mating agar plates, contamination could be produced and that sample will not be usable. Another major possible human error that can occur in this experiment is not remembering to put the hyphae side pf the fungal down, which could end up in no spores or improper growth. Some less major but important to take into

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