Heavy Metal

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 More General Terms 3 Additional Terms 4 References

Introduction

• Any metal with a high specific gravity, generally > 5.

• Heavy metals include:

• iron ( Fe)
• cobolt ( Co)
• copper ( Cu)
• manganese (Mn)
• molybdenum (Mo)
• zinc ( Zn)
• vanadium (Vn)
• lead (Pb)
• mercury ( Hg)
• gold (Au)
• silver ( Ag)
• cadmium (Cd)
• arsenic ( As)

More General Terms

• chemistry

Additional Terms

• heavy metal qualitative screen
• heavy metals quantitative

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999

heavy metal