Arsenic: it's what's for dinner
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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Texas Tech University Professor, Dr. Melanie Barnes introduces Arsenic Arrestors to the laboratory.

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If a plant can be identified as a hyper-accumulator of inorganic arsenic, then the plant can be used to bio-remediate contaminated soil.  

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One solution would be to use a plant that absorbs much of the arsenic from the environment to clean up contaminated sites naturally.

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In this experiment we used acid digestion to prepare the plant to be analyzed.

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