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Leaching of metals from red mud and toxicity in human cells in vitro

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Elsevier
    • الموضوع:
      2023
    • Collection:
      Jultika - University of Oulu repository / Oulun yliopiston julkaisuarkisto
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Toxicity of red mud, a waste from alumina production, was studied using human breast cancer MCF-7 cells. Culture medium was prepared by mixing water for 3 days with the red mud and removing solid particles afterwards (red mud water). Culture for 48 h of the cells in this medium in neutral pH decreased the cell viability, as analyzed by the MTT-test, and increased the formation of reactive oxygen species. Thus, neutralization does not eliminate the toxicity of red mud. In preliminary experiments, a combined effect of five metals (Cr, Li, V, Al, As) increased the formation of ROS (reactive oxygen species) statistically significantly. Each element separately did not have a similar effect. In environmental applications, red mud is likely to be used after activation. In this work, the red mud was activated using hydrochloric acid to study the physical and chemical properties before and after the treatment. Activation increased the specific surface area of red mud from 16 m2 g−1 to 148 m2 g−1, which is beneficial in many environmental applications such as in the adsorptive removal of pollutants. After activation, leaching of some elements from the red mud decreased (e.g. Al from 38.0 to 0.56 mg L−1, As from 21.0 to 2.1 μg L−1, V from 172.0 to 29.8 μg L−1) while some increased (e.g. Li from 0.04 to 2.81 mg L−1, Cr from 0.35 to 3.23 mg L−1)
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      application/pdf
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023081195195
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.535BA16D