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Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution on Plants

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Abstract

Though nickel was identified as an element as early as 1751 by Cronstedt, its occurrence in plants was not recognized for a further hundred years, when Forchhammer (1855) found nickel in oak wood. More routine examination of plant material for the presence of nickel did not occur until Tschugaeff (1905) developed the dimethyl glyoxime method for determining trace quantities. Kraut (1906) found nickel in peat and brown coal ashes, while Cornec (1919) found it in marine algae. Later, McHargue (1925) analysed a wide range of plant, animal and soil samples for nickel, copper, manganese and cobalt and concluded that all were widely present in these materials and may therefore function as essential elements. A brief review of these early studies on nickel is given in Vanselow (1966).

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Hutchinson, T.C. (1981). Nickel. In: Lepp, N.W. (eds) Effect of Heavy Metal Pollution on Plants. Pollution Monitoring Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7339-1_6

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