Definitions for "Phytoremediation"
Using plants to clear toxic metals from the environment by chelation.
Clean-option involving the use of plants to take up the contaminant.
Use of plants and vegetation in the bioremediation of hazardous wastes. An example would be the use of poplar trees to clean up DDT residues.
See full explanation below adioactivity: the emission of particles (such as alpha and beta particles) and rays (energy, such as gamma rays) from an unstable atom (radionuclide) as it disintegrates.
The use of trees to take up chemicals, binding some of the material in an inert form with the tree, and converting some of it to other substances, possibly even breaking it down into the normal end product of a tree's chemical processes. .