TY - CHAP AU - Khathutshelo Catherine Mqehe-Nedzivhe AU - Khathutshelo Makhado AU - Oluwasayo Folasayo Olorundare AU - Omotayo Ademola Arotiba AU - Elizabeth Makhatha AU - Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo and Nonhlangabezo Mabuba ED - Margarita Stoytcheva ED - Roumen Zlatev Y1 - 2018-02-21 PY - 2018 T1 - Bio-adsorbents for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Water N2 - Arsenic - Analytical and Toxicological Studies is a collection of original works focused on arsenic occurrence and chemistry, methods for arsenic determination and removal and arsenic toxicity and health risks. The most commonly used techniques for arsenic quantification and speciation, such as atomic absorption spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, and inductively coupled plasma-emission spectrometry, among others, and the various procedures applied for arsenic separation and removal are exhaustively described. The mechanism of arsenic-induced toxicology, involving arsenic interaction with critical thiols in proteins and the health risks associated with exposure to arsenic, is also discussed. BT - Arsenic SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.73570 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.73570 SN - 978-1-78923-517-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -