Tellurium
A special issue on tellurium: ‘Tellurium in Biological and Environmental Systems: After Fukushima’ has been published in the journal Environmental Chemistry (July 2019). The articles in this issue are briefly commented here. The issue includes several review-type articles that give a comprehensive account of current knowledge on the element:
- Tellurium in the environment: current knowledge and identification of gaps.
- Tellurium radionuclides produced by major accidental events in nuclear power plants.
- Losses and environmental aspects of a byproduct metal: tellurium.
- Tellurite-dependent blackening of bacteria emerges from the dark ages.