Re: [CH] phytoremediation

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>I think Sunflower is also used for
>lead removal
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>have an article in this months local growing mag about sunflowers, which I
>think you may find interesting....
>"Studies have found that sunflowers act like natural vacuum cleaners when it
>comes to cleaning up contaminated soils and polluted groundwater.By a
>process known as phytoremediation, the plants suck contaminants out of the
>soil and store them in their stem tissue for easy disposal.
>In the early 1990's, a New Jersey company planted sunflowers around a badly
>polluted pond near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.The plants removed 95 per
>cent of the radioactive strontium in the soil"

so, like, my sunflower seeds that I buy at the market are probably 
radioactive?  that would explain my day-glo yellow piss...waaaaaay 
cool in the snow!

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