Contamination levels assessment of potential toxic metals in road dust deposited in different types of urban environment

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1187-1196

  Wei, Binggan ^a,b   Jiang, Fengqing ^a   Li, Xuemei ^a,b   Mu, Shuyong ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Contamination assessment; Potential toxic metal; Road dust; Urumqi

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENT; CONTAMINATION INDEX; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; LEAD-FREE; MAIN GROUP; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; PB CONTAMINATION; RING ROADS; ROAD DUSTS; TOXIC METALS; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URUMQI;

AIR POLLUTION; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; COPPER; DUST; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; TOXIC MATERIALS; ZINC;

ROADS AND STREETS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DUST; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; SAMPLING; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

CHINA; URUMQI; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 77956462439     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0441-6     Document Type: Article

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