The science math magnet school for the Tacoma SD has a partnership with the university of Washington Studying the SARCO pollution of the sound and surrounding land areas. SARCO was a smelter for lead and other metals.
A method of determining lead levels in the round involves using a protein in a bottom feeding mollusk. A protein in the mollusk contains cysteine amino acids. Explain why this might provide information regarding the mollusk's water environment concerning heavy metals such as Lead.
In recent years cystein has been found as a very good chelating agent with lead and it forms a complex with lead. So it might prove a good alternative to clean the mollusk water from lead. Lead forms several mononuclear Pb(II)-cysteine complexes in aqueous solution, including: Pb(Cys), Pb(Cys)22−, Pb(Cys)34−, Pb(HCys)+, Pb(Cys)(HCys)−and Pb(Cys)2(OH)3− . In this way we can remove heavy metal lead from aquatic system and can evade lead poisoning.
The science math magnet school for the Tacoma SD has a partnership with the university of Washington Studying the SARCO...