potentially toxic elements
Variability in concentrations of potentially toxic elements in urban parks from six European cities
... in potentially toxic elements (PTEs); soils from Ljubljana, Sevilla and Uppsala had intermediate metal contents, and soils from the most recently established park, in the least industrialised city ...
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Implications of Long-Term Irrigation with Wastewater on The Contents and Retention Kinetics of Potentially Toxic Elements in Typic Torripsamment Soils
... Introduction Potentially toxic elements PTEs can be brought to soils from different anthropogenic sources ...These elements persist in soils and do not undergo microbial degradation (Greger, ...
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Soil and plant pollution by potentially toxic elements in Slovakia
... risk elements have been obtained from a soil-monitoring grid in Slovakia, which consists of 318 agricultural ...described elements including Hg have been used for soil ...content. Potentially ...
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A Spectroscopic Approach to Assess Potentially Toxic Elements of Reclaimed Dumpsites in the Czech Republic
... of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in anthropogenic soils on brown coal mining dumpsites requires a large number of samples and cumbersome and time-consuming laboratory ...
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Fractionation of potentially toxic elements in urban soils from five European cities by means of a harmonised sequential extraction procedure
... Concentrations of potentially toxic elements (PTE) in urban soils have been reported for cities in diverse parts of the world. These include Aberdeen (UK) [6], Basel (Switzerland) [7], Bombay (India) ...
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Health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements via consumption of vegetables irrigated with polluted river water in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... for potentially harmful elements in the river waters of the study areas may come from industrial effluents, direct solid or liquid waste deposal and urban ...
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Oral bioaccessibility tests to measure potentially toxic elements in inhalable particulate matter collected during routine air quality monitoring
... Legends for Figures Figure 1 Release of Cu and Zn from blank acrodisc® syringe filters washed with glycine 0.4 mol L-1 pH 1.5 or HCl pH 1.5 Figure 2 The bioaccessible concentrations of p[r] ...
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Long term soil accumulation of potentially toxic elements and selected organic pollutants through application of recycled phosphorus fertilizers for organic farming conditions
... The assessment of the 200-years PTE inputs by fertilizers, liming and atmospheric deposition indi- cated that these inputs are expected to be small compared to the already existing PTE background concentrations in soil ...
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A novel two-step sequential bioaccessibility test for potentially toxic elements in inhaled particulate matter transported into the gastrointestinal tract by mucociliary clearance
... isolated greater amounts of Cu and Pb than the equivalent oral bioaccessibility tests. The AMF→SBET procedure also re- covered higher quantities of Cr and, especially As (more than twice the amount released by the SBET ...
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The effect of potentially toxic elements and sewage sludge on the activity of regulatory enzyme glutamate kinase
... Both rates of toxic elements in field experiment did not significantly influence glutamate kinase activity (Table 7). Our results showed a significant increase of the glutamate kinase activity only in the ...
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Effects of biochar and activated carbon amendment on maize growth and the uptake and measured availability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and potentially toxic elements (PTEs)
... 5 Cu, As and Zn concentrations in shoots and roots insufficient sample for root As analysis of 329 maize plants growing contaminated soils with different biochar treatment, C: control, P[r] ...
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Degradation of forest soils in the vicinity of an industrial zone
... by potentially toxic elements, especially by Pb originating from a nearby industrial ...of potentially mobilized elements do not represent a direct risk for the whole ...bases. ...
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Elevated soil copper content in a Bohemian vineyard as a result of fungicide application
... in toxic concentrations, Cu is known to inhibit plant growth and to interfere with important cellular processes such as photo- synthesis and respiration, therefore plants grown in the presence of excessive levels ...
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Cancer and Non-Cancer Risk of Santiago Island (Cape Verde) Population due to Potential Toxic Elements Exposure from Soils
... all elements, for some harmful elements in soils of Santiago Island (Cape Verde ...some potentially toxic elements by the Santiago Island population, according to the Exposure Factors ...
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Use of dredged sediments on agricultural soils from viewpoint of potentially toxic substances
... The mobile fraction of As, Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn in the extract of 1 mol/L NH 4 NO 3 was measured and compared with total contents of potentially toxic elements in the aqua regia extract (Table 5). It ...
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Measuring copper, lead and zinc concentrations and oral bioaccessibility as part of the Soils in Scottish Schools project
... of potentially toxic elements in soils with which children have regular contact can provide valuable information to support health risk ...the elements studied posed a significant health risk ...
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Toxic Elements in Mountain Soils (Little Beskids, Polish Carpathians)
... The toxic element concentrations in Pol- ish soils are spatially diversified (Siebielec et ...of toxic elements in mountain soils of southern Poland, that is in the Polish ...four elements ...
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Advances in the Treatment of Textile Effluents: A Review
... carry toxic, mutagenic and potentially carcinogenic substances, and are resistant to chemical and/or biological degradation, pre- venting traditional effluent treatment methodologies from removing signifi- ...
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The Significance of ‘Non-Significant’ Meconium Stained Amniotic Fluid (MSAF): Colour versus
... Some have considered that ‘non-significant’ meconium has a lower risk of fetal complications, and therefore, they have recommended intermittent auscultation [9]. Those who advocate this management consider that reduced ...
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The Effects of Initial Cell Density on the Growth and Proliferation of the Potentially Toxic Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa
... This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of initial cell density on the growth rate of the poten- tially toxic cyanobacteria M. aeruginosa, in unfiltered lake water as well as common algal growth ...
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