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Heavy Metals in Soils

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Barium (Ba) is a common element in the Earth’s crust and is present at higher concentrations than most other trace elements, and naturally occurs in one oxidaton state (+II). Industrial uses of Ba are wide and variable including: oil and gas drilling muds. The most common minerals of Ba are barite and hollandite and in geochemical processes it is usually associated with K+. Barium is not very mobile in most soils although plants may take up Ba easily from acid soils, but there are few reports of toxic concentrations of Ba in plants.

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Madejón, P. (2013). Barium. In: Alloway, B. (eds) Heavy Metals in Soils. Environmental Pollution, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4470-7_19

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