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Assessment of Bioremediation Strategies for Explosives-Contaminated Sites

Olga Muter

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Human healthBioremediationExplosive materialbiologyEnvironmental chemistryEnvironmental scienceRaw materialPesticideContaminationbiology.organism_classificationCunninghamella echinulata

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Large amounts of soil and water have been contaminated with energetic compounds as a result of the manufacture, storage, testing, use and disposal of munitions as well as the use of nitroaromatic and nitramines as chemical feedstock for synthesis of pesticides, herbicides, dyes, and pharmaceuticals. Historically, TNT (2 methyl-1,3,5, trinitrobenzene) has been the most widely used military explosive (Nicklin et al. 1999; Kulkarni and Chaudhari 2007b). Since TNT is toxic, mutagenic, and also highly energetic (Rosenblatt et al. 1991), TNT contamination has a serious impact on the environment and also threatens human health (Maeda et al. 2007).

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2013-08-02
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01083-0_6