TY - CHAP AU - Valeria M. Nurchi AU - Isabel Villaescusa ED - Darko Matovic Y1 - 2011-09-09 PY - 2011 T1 - The Chemistry Behind the Use of Agricultural Biomass as Sorbent for Toxic Metal Ions: pH Influence, Binding Groups, and Complexation Equilibria N2 - Biomass has been an intimate companion of humans from the dawn of civilization to the present. Its use as food, energy source, body cover and as construction material established the key areas of biomass usage that extend to this day. Given the complexities of biomass as a source of multiple end products, this volume sheds new light to the whole spectrum of biomass related topics by highlighting the new and reviewing the existing methods of its detection, production and usage. We hope that the readers will find valuable information and exciting new material in its chapters. BT - Biomass SP - Ch. 20 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/16451 DO - 10.5772/16451 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -