Contamination assessment of mercury and arsenic in roadway dust from Baoji, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2489-2496

  Lu, Xinwei ^a   Li, Loretta Y ^b   Wang, Lijun ^a   Lei, Kai ^a   Huang, Jing ^a   Zhai, Yuxiang ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Contamination assessment; Dust; Enrichment factor; Geoaccumulation index; Mercury

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS; ATOMIC FLUORESCENCES; BACKGROUND VALUES; CEMENT MANUFACTURING; COAL-FIRED POWER STATIONS; COKE-OVEN PLANTS; CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENT; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; ENRICHMENT FACTOR; GEOACCUMULATION INDEX; HOLOCENE; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; LOESS PLATEAUX; MEAN VALUES; MERCURY; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; NW CHINAS; ORGANIC MATTERS; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; VEHICULAR TRAFFICS;

ARSENIC; COAL DUST; CONTAMINATION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONMETALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

MERCURY (METAL);

ARSENIC; MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARSENIC; BACKGROUND LEVEL; DUST; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEOACCUMULATION INDEX; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LOESS; MERCURY (ELEMENT); ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTAMINATION; DUST; INDUSTRY AND INDUSTRIAL PHENOMENA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; TRAFFIC;

ASIA; BAOJI; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHAANXI;

EID: 63249094066     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.01.048     Document Type: Article

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