Monitoring of heavy metal levels in roadside dusts of Thessaloniki, Greece in relation to motor vehicle traffic density and flow

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 157, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 483-498

  Ewen, Caroline ^a   Anagnostopoulou, Maria A ^b,c   Ward, Neil I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

FAAS; Heavy metals; Pollution; Speciation analysis; Total elemental analysis

Indexed keywords

ACID DIGESTION; AQUA REGIA; BRAKE PADS; CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS; CHEMICAL FORMS; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; COPPER AND ZINC; DUST PARTICULATES; DUST SAMPLES; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; EXHAUST EMISSION; FAAS; FLAME ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FRACTION SIZE; HEAVY METAL DEPOSITION; HEAVY METAL LEVELS; HEAVY METAL POLLUTION; MOTOR VEHICLE; NORTHERN GREECE; RING ROADS; SPECIATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; THESSALONIKI; THESSALONIKI , GREECE; THREE-STEP SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION; TOTAL ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; TRAFFIC PATTERN; URBAN AREAS; VEHICLE COMPONENTS;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; BIOCHEMISTRY; CADMIUM; DUST; LEAD; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL RECOVERY; METALS; MOTORS; ROADSIDES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; VEHICLES; ZINC;

METAL ANALYSIS;

CADMIUM; COPPER; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MANGANESE; ZINC;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COPPER; DUST; EXTRACTION METHOD; FRACTIONATION; INNER CITY AREA; LEAD; MANGANESE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN POLLUTION; ZINC;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXHAUST GAS; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GREECE; MOTOR VEHICLE; POLLUTION MONITORING; REFERENCE VALUE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CADMIUM; COPPER; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREECE; LEAD; MANGANESE; METALS, HEAVY; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; ZINC;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 70349260686     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0550-9     Document Type: Article

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