Fluorine is an essential element required in trace amounts but gets toxic for human beings at
levels more than 1.5 mg F− L− 1 primarily through drinking contaminated water. It is the 13th …

This book contains eight chapters discussing the history of fluorine and sources of fluorides
in the environments. The uptake, transport and accumulation of inorganic fluorides by plants …

In the tropical region, the greatest challenge of the biomonitoring approach is to establish
linear relationships between biomarkers measured in plants and pollutant concentrations …

Fluorine and many fluorides are considered extremely harmful for both people and plants.
Fluoride injury to vegetation has been frequently reported around highly industrialised …

The present study was performed in the vicinity of the industrial complex of Cubatão, São
Paulo, Brazil, in order to evaluate the response of 'manaca da serra'Tibouchina pulchra …

Effects of different NaF concentrations on the growth and certain metabolic parameters of
almond seedlings (Amygdalis communis) were studied under strictly controlled growth …

Psidium guajava L., Psidium cattleyanum Sabine and Mangifera indica L. were tested under
field conditions as possible tropical bioindicators of industrial air pollution. The study was …

The global status of fluoride pollution is conceptually presented in this book. Most of the
recent scientific studies undertaken the world over are carefully summarized and tabulated …

Monthly observations from May through October during the year 2000 on the southwest side
of a phosphate fertilizer plant located in the coastal zone of the Sfax region of Tunisia …

Fluoride, a common phytotoxic air, water and soil pollutant is commonly released to the
environment by a number of industrial processes. Agricultural soils high in fluoride are …