3. industrial sources such as smelting and microelectronic industries.
Arsenic
The industrial sources of lead include gasoline, house paint, plumbing
pipes, lead bullets, storage batteries.
Lead
it can be found in some chemical, electrical-equipment, automotive,
metal-processing, and building industries.
Mercury
Mostly used in industries for the production of paints, pigments alloys,
coatings, batteries as well as plastics.
Cadmium
present in petroleum and coal, chromium steel, pigment oxidants,
fertilizers, catalyst, oil well drilling and metal plating tanneries.
Chromium
4. Heavy Metals
Nervous system
Free radicals
Inhibition of
neurotransmitter,
neuron damage.
Neurotoxicity
Nucleic acid Lipid protein
Loss of cellular
functions
Cell damage
carcinogenesis