Abstract
Sea desertification has become a serious problem in sea coasts worldwide. Owing to Japan’s long sea coast, fishery is one of its key industries; thus, sea desertification is a crucial problem for the Japanese society. The positive effect of steelmaking slag containing humic substances or soil in sea coast on the rehabilitation of damaged coastal environments has been phenomenologically confirmed. This study has focused on elucidating this phenomenon, and it has been clarified that the coexistence of organic substances and steelmaking slag supported the stable dissolution of nutrients from steelmaking slag by chelating the inorganic ions.
Keywords: Chelation reaction, Nutrient dissolution, Organic acid, Sea desertification.
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Hiroyuki Matsuura ;Elution of Rehabilitation Material Made from Steelmaking Slag for Coastal Environments, Marine Ecology: Current and Future Developments Monitoring Artificial Materials and Microbes in Marine Ecosystems: Interactions and Assessment Methods (2020) 2: 243. https://doi.org/10.2174/9789811437250120020022
DOI https://doi.org/10.2174/9789811437250120020022 |
Print ISSN 2661-4677 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 2661-4685 |