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    Soils act as a sink for many pollutants, where they can persist for many years. Pollutants become incorporated into the organic matter in soils over time through a process called aging, which can make them virtually irreversible. The major factors affecting aging are the quantity and type of soil organic matter, inorganic soil constituents, pore size, and structure. Pollutants can also be broken down through chemical, physical, biological, and abiotic processes, most importantly microbial reactions like biodegradation, and chemical reactions such as hydrolysis and oxidation. Certain contaminants are more prone to bioaccumulation in organisms based on their uptake and excretion rates.

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    Soils act as a sink for many pollutants, where they can persist for many years. Pollutants become incorporated into the organic matter in soils over time through a process called aging, which can make them virtually irreversible. The major factors affecting aging are the quantity and type of soil organic matter, inorganic soil constituents, pore size, and structure. Pollutants can also be broken down through chemical, physical, biological, and abiotic processes, most importantly microbial reactions like biodegradation, and chemical reactions such as hydrolysis and oxidation. Certain contaminants are more prone to bioaccumulation in organisms based on their uptake and excretion rates.

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    CHAPTER 5
    BIOCHEMICAL PROCESS
     Organisms rely on biochemical processes to live
    Soil and Pollution
    Anabela Cachada, ... Armando C. Duarte, in Soil Pollution, 2018

     Soil is the ultimate sink for many pollutants where they may persist for many
    years.
     Once in soils, contaminants can be incorporated into more stable solid phases over
    time, for instance, they can be retained in the organic phase of a soil, and this
    process which is known as aging (or sequestration) can be virtually irreversible 
     The major factors that affect aging are the quantity and nature of carbonaceous
    geo-sorbents (i.e., soil organic matter and black carbon), the inorganic
    constituents of soil, pore size, and structure.
    Soil and Pollution
    Anabela Cachada, ... Armando C. Duarte, in Soil Pollution, 2018

     Pollutants can also be broken down or transformed by chemical, physical, abiotic, and/or biologically induced
    processes.
     The most important processes are microbial reactions (e.g., biodegradation, the transformation of
    contaminants), chemical reactions (e.g. hydrolysis, reduction and oxidation, isomerization, photochemical
    transformation), and bioaccumulation.
     Regarding bioaccumulation, some contaminants are assimilated by organisms to a greater extent than others,
    depending mainly on the rate of uptake and excretion.
     For example, Pb complexed by Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is available for transport, and it can be
    up taken by organisms

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