heavy metal

Introduction

Any metal with a high specific gravity, generally > 5.

Heavy metals include:

• iron (Fe)
• cobolt (Co)
• copper (Cu)
• manganese (Mn)
• molybdenum (Mo)
• zinc (Zn)
• vanadium (Vn)
• lead (Pb)
• mercury (Hg)
• gold (Au)
• silver (Ag)
• cadmium (Cd)
• arsenic (As)

More general terms

• chemistry

Additional terms

• heavy metal qualitative screen
• heavy metals quantitative