Heavy Metals in Street Dust in Sarajevo Area, Bosnia and Herzegovina
| Autor: | Sabina Gojak-Salimović, Jasna Huremović, Mustafa Memić, A. Razanica, Sabina Zero |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Current World Environment Journal. 9:43-47 |
| ISSN: | 2320-8031 0973-4929 |
| DOI: | 10.12944/cwe.9.1.06 |
| Popis: | Heavy metal pollutant in urban street dust has become a growing concern in recent years. Street dust samples from urban and suburban areas were collected from the Sarajevo area, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the spring season of 2013. Samples were collected from low and high density traffic roads, industrial zones, parks, parking places, hospitals and local health centres, school gardens. The levels of heavy metals of street dusts were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, iron, manganese, lead and zinc levels in the dust samples were found in the range of 0.58–3.65, 3.42–60.82, 5.49– 388, 9.31–161, 647–2244, 6.10–13.32, 31.63-1760 and 40.29–378 μg/g, respectively. The highest metal concentrations were found in samples from industrial zone and in the streets with heavy traffic. The lowest levels of the metal concentrations were found in the samples from health centres and school gardens. The concentrations of the metals were, in most of cases, similar to the mean world-wide contents of the street dust samples. Correlations between heavy trace metal levels of the dust samples were also evaluated. |
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