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Phytoremediation of Explosives

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Abstract

The widespread use of civilian, industrial, and military munitions has led to pollution by explosive compounds in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Each step in the life cycle of a munition from production, transport, storage, distribution, and destruction can introduce explosives as pure liquid or solids via leaching, contaminant spills, trace particles, whole or partial unexploded and exploded ordnance. Remediating explosives is difficult because the behavior of any one explosive compound is rather difficult as a number of factors can vastly alter how it moves, where it binds, and how it is sequestered by organisms. The phytoremediation of explosives focuses largely on sequestering compounds in their parent forms or transforming and degrading the compounds to inert forms using inherent metabolic processes in the plants themselves.

Keywords

Degradation Explosives Munitions Nitrate esters Nitroamines Nitroaromatics Phytoremediation Ordinance Secondary contamination Sequestration Tolerance 
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