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Transport, Accumulation, and Physiological Effects of Vanadium

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Detoxification of Heavy Metals

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 30))

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Locally, industrial and volcanic exhalation of vanadium oxides can cause a vanadium overload in soil surface areas. In an oxic environment, vanadium compounds will be oxidized to vanadate(V), which is soluble and thus drains into the ground water. Since vanadate(V) acts as a phosphate antagonist, it is potentially toxic. Soil bacteria such as Geobacter metallireducens and Shewanella oneidensis reduce vanadate to insoluble and comparatively harmless vanadium(IV) hydroxide. The remobilization of vanadium(IV) can occur by strong chelators excreted by other bacteria such as Azotobacter. In lead water pipe scales, insoluble vanadinite deposits form, from which the drinking water contaminants lead(II) and vanadate(V) are remobilized under acidic conditions.

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Rehder, D. (2011). Transport, Accumulation, and Physiological Effects of Vanadium. In: Sherameti, I., Varma, A. (eds) Detoxification of Heavy Metals. Soil Biology, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21408-0_11

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