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Quantitative Zinc Speciation in Soils 2. Due March 15 3. Operations Update 1. A scientific approach to cleaning up the environment requires basic chemical information at the molecular level about contaminants. For example, a remediation strategy depends not just on the concentration of the toxic metal but on its mobility in soil and water and its ease of uptake by plants, animals, and people, properties that depend on the chemical compounds containing the metal.