How to use in-sentence of “heavy metals”:
– Some plants, known as hyperaccumulators, specialise in storing heavy metals which are toxic to animals.
– It does not add up in the body like other heavy metals do.
– Many Metalmetals, particularly heavy metals are toxic, but some heavy metals are essential, and some, such as bismuth, have a low toxicity.
– In certain conditions, the weed may concentrate heavy metals and bacteria such as “Salmonella” and “Vibrio cholerae”, the bacterium that causes cholera.
– The various heavy metals that are found in the region are rutile, kyanite, zircon, hypersthene and magnetite.
– The term heavy metals includes chromium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, arsenic, silver, gold, cadmium, antimony, mercury, thallium, tungsten, platinum and lead.
– The heavy metals most commonly associated with poisoning of humans are lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium.
– The advantage of hyperaccumulation of metals may be that the toxic levels of heavy metals in leaves deter herbivores.
