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Survey Paper | Chemistry | India | Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2015

A Regular Monitoring of Iron Signifying the Quality of Water in Various Uses

Dr. Kumar Sourav ^[3] | Kumar Ashwani Kashyap

Abstract: Iron is one of most abundant elements of the rocks and soil. All kinds of water including ground water have appreciable quantities of iron. Because of its more solubility at acidic pH, therefore, large quantities of iron are leached out from the soil by acidic waters.

Keywords: Iron, having a functional role in living system, is an essential elements for plant and animal lives & present in a number of biologically significant proteins It participates in two main processes oxygen-transport and electron-transfer There are other molecules functioning as storer and tranporter of iron itself in the biological processes The deficiency of iron in human body causes anaemia and weakness but large quantities result in haemochromatosis when tissue damage occurs due to excess of iron accumulation Higher Fe+2 content found in drinking water of some areas of Dumka town caused red colouring of teeth of the inhabitants

Edition: Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2015,

Pages: 1380 - 1381