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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Arsenic in Slovakia: Pollution Issues and the Potential of Magnetic Carbon Biomaterials for Wastewater Treatment.

Anton Zubrik, Eva Mačingová, Slavomír Hredzák, Marek Matik

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Anton ZubrikInstitute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-2176-0549
Eva MačingováInstitute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.
Slavomír HredzákInstitute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.
Marek MatikInstitute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia.

Funding

EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia 09I03-03-V04-00708Slovak Grant Agency for Science VEGA-2/0108/23Slovak Grant Agency for Science VEGA-2/0116/23Slovak Grant Agency for Science VEGA-2/0138/24Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-20-0140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Slovakia, there are a number of contaminated sites that have occurred due to intensive mining, mineral processing, metallurgical activities, chemical industry, fossil fuel combustion, and industrial agriculture in the past. This paper summarizes the occurrence, chemistry, toxicity, and mineralogy of arsenic species related to soil and water contamination in Slovakia. Four main localities with arsenic exposure were identified. Additionally, magnetically modified carbon biochar (MWchar-Mag) was tested for arsenic removal from a model solution alongside real mine water discharged from the abandoned Hauser adit. For the model aqueous solution, the maximum adsorption capacity was established at 6.2 mg of As per g of MWchar-Mag at natural pH. In the case of mine water with a concentration of arsenic at around 0.2 mg/L, adsorbent dosage, pH influence experiments, and kinetic tests were realized. The results confirmed 100% arsenic removal efficiency at pH~3-7 and extremely fast kinetics.

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arsenic contaminationmagnetic carbon bioadsorbentsreal wastewaterremediation

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PMID39859759
PMCPMC11767112

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