Sentence examples for bioavailability of the metals from inspiring English sources

Another possible reason could be that the shift of pH toward alkalinity may reduce the bioavailability of the metals.

This helps to obtain a thorough knowledge on distribution, mobility and bioavailability of the metals (Degryse et al. 2003).

Heavy metal concentrations in sediment and bioavailability of the metals were analyzed and ecological risks were assessed using the results.

Serpentine soils contain high levels of geogenic Cr and Ni, which may pose potential risks to the environment due to the increase of bioavailability of the metals during soil weathering.

The solubility and bioavailability of the metals are related to the associated chemical phases and are found to decrease in the order, exchangeable > carbonate-bound > Fe Mn oxide-bound > organic bound > residual (Li et al. 2009).

Differences between studies may reflect differences in the bioavailability of the metals for Fenton reactions.

There is considerable evidence that metal adsorption onto microbial cell envelopes represents the first step in bioavailability of the metal to the cell.

It has been reported by Blaylock et al. [73] that the addition of a chelating agent like ethylene diamine tetraacetate (EDTA) to the soil increases the bioavailability of the metal.

The bioavailability of these metals was certified by the presence of them in the roots of species of plants and in kidneys and livers of wild rodents.

However, the bioavailability of these metals might be increased due to the ionization in the aqueous phase in the soil which increases their reactivity and instability as earlier reported by Kumar and Chopra (2014c).

A metal-tolerant plant, Sedum plumbizincicola X. H. Guo et S. B. Zhou sp. nov. was used in the plant growth experiment to examine the bioavailability of these metals.