1. Discovery of the dispersed state of chemical elements
2. Representation of the scattering state
3. Scattered metals
4. Scattering of metals in surface waters
5. Redistribution of scattered metals in weathering products
6. The biological cycle of metals
7. What happens in the soil?
8. Regulators of biological processes
9. Variability of scattered metals content and its consequences
10. Technogenic saturation of the biosphere with metals
11. Geochemistry of major pollutant metals
12. Technogenic metal scattering and environmental protection