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Effects of heavy metals in drinking water
Heavy metals like lead, arsenic, copper, zinc, iron, manganese and mercury are known to be toxic since the ancient times, but proper methodical studies were carried out from 1868. Heavy metals are very hard to be metabolized by the human body and that is the main reason of their toxicity. Heavy metals bind with cellular elements like structural proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes and can affect their functioning.
