Silver and Silver Compounds: Environmental Aspects:Environmental Aspects

In: Concise International Chemical Assessment Document

Abstract

This book evaluates the effects of silver and silver comounds to the environment including their uptake and accumulation in plants. Silver is a rare but naturally occurring metal often found deposited as a mineral ore in association with other elements. Emissions from smelting operations manufacture and disposal of certain photographic and electrical supplies coal combustion and cloud seeding are some of the anthropogenic sources of silver and silver compounds in the biosphere.