phytomining
noun/ˈfaɪtəʊˌmaɪnɪŋ/UK/ˈfaɪtoʊˌmaɪnɪŋ/US
Etymology
From phyto- (prefix meaning ‘derived from or pertaining to plants’) + mining.
Definitions
The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals…
The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal.
- Cultivation of hyperaccumulators on naturally enriched areas offers the greatest promise for use in phytomining. Phytomining is a more specific form of phytoremediation where the purpose of metal removal from soil is economic gain.
- The three metals, nickel, thallium and gold were reported as candidates for phytomining in 1999 owing to the relatively high price that each metal commands on international commodity markets.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for phytomining. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA