Preferred term
HEAVY METALS
Broader concept
Scope note
- Metals with a density at least five times that of water (including cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, tin, vanadium), considered mainly in their aspect as pollutants
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