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Metals, Heavy
Metals with high specific gravity, typically larger than 5. They have complex spectra, form colored salts and double salts, have a low electrode potential, are mainly amphoteric, yield weak bases and weak acids, and are oxidizing or reducing agents (From Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
Subtype terms (55)
More specific conditions that are subtypes of Metals, Heavy in the MeSH hierarchy.
- Actinium
- Americium
- Antimony
- Barium
- Berkelium
- Bismuth
8 drugs (7 approved, 1 experimental)
- Cadmium
2 drugs (1 approved, 1 experimental)
- Californium
- Cesium
- Chromium
1 drug experimental
- Cobalt
- Copper
- Curium
- Einsteinium
- Fermium
- Francium
- Gallium
- Germanium
- Gold
- Hafnium
- Indium
- Iridium
- Iron
13 drugs (6 approved, 7 experimental)
- Lawrencium
- Lead
- Manganese
4 drugs (2 approved, 2 experimental)
- Mendelevium
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
1 drug approved
- Neptunium
- Nickel
1 drug experimental
- Niobium
- Nobelium
- Osmium
- Palladium
- Platinum
4 drugs (3 approved, 1 experimental)
- Plutonium
- Protactinium
- Radium
- Rhenium
- Rhodium
- Rubidium
- Ruthenium
- Silver
- Strontium
- Tantalum
- Technetium
- Thallium
- Thorium
- Tin
- Tungsten
- Uranium
- Vanadium
- Zinc
21 drugs (8 approved, 13 experimental)
- Zirconium
1 drug approved