作者: G.J. Churchman , W.P. Gates , B.K.G. Theng , G. Yuan
DOI: 10.1016/S1572-4352(05)01020-2
关键词: Heavy metals 、 Environmental remediation 、 Environmental chemistry 、 Pollution 、 Environmental science 、 Clay minerals 、 Environmental protection
摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the applications of clays and clay materials for pollution control. Because ubiquitous widespread occurrence in soils sediments, are long used control toxic albeit at a small scale or only locally—for example, Lemnian earth was medicinally ancient Greece Turkey to counter effects snakebites poisons cure festering wounds. The undoubted usefulness environmental protection arises from many same characteristics that made them so useful industrially otherwise human societies centuries. provides some particular proposed protection, delineates properties make these applications, outlines requirements pre-treatment enhance their effectiveness each case.