Tobacco plant as possible biomonitoring tool of red mud dust fallout and increased natural radioactivity

Exposure to toxic heavy metal content in soil and inherent naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) needs to be monitored, especially after industrial accidents and remediation efforts. Just such an accident happened near Ajka city in Hungary; a large quantity of red mud flooded out from a r...

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Main Authors: Tibor Kovács, Mária Horváth, Anita Csordás, Gergő Bátor, Edit Tóth-Bodrogi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-03-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020303005