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cleaning heavymetal polluted invironments the microbe way

In the past few years rapid urbanisation and  industrialisation have led to an enormous increase in the amount of industrial waste generated including heavy metals like arsenic cadmium chromium copper nickel lead and mercury metal contaminants are usually found in a variety of sources including soils sediments and water metal pollutants can be produced through industrial processes such as mining refining and electroplating  although they have major  roles in industrial and economic a development these metals also exert toxic effects if present in high concentrations in the environment they are not only toxic to living cells but can also cause cancers and mutations due to rigorous exploitation of the available resources levels of heavy metals have become alarmingly high in air  and water the existence and persistence of the heav metals. 
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