Investigation of the Use of Cucumis sativus for Remediation of Chromium from Contaminated Environmental Matrices An Interdisciplinary Instrumental Analysis Project

摘要

In this interdisciplinary semester-long project, upper-level instrumental analysis students studied the use of the cucumber plant (Cucumis sativus) as a rhizofiltrator and a phytoextractor for the removal of chromium from contaminated water and soil. This project has been completed by three instrumental analysis classes, each of which investigated a different set of experimen?tal variables. The analytical technique used for the project was atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), although inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) could certainly be used with potentially much lower limits of detec?tion.