Heavy metal concentration in fluted pumpkin and earthworm from roadside and dumpsite farms in Port Harcourt City, Nigeria
Autor: | E J Odukoya, E O Akeredolu, U D Ukwa, O G Adams |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Zdroj: | NIGERIAN ANNALS OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES. 1:130-136 |
ISSN: | 2705-3997 2682-6623 |
Popis: | The study investigates heavy metal concentrations in vegetables, earthworms and dumpsite farms in Port Harcourt city. Samples were collected from the road sides, dump sites and control sites. Metals investigated were cadmium, nickel, copper, zinc and lead. These were analyzed using Atomic AbsorptionSpectrophotometer (AAS). The earthworm collected from road side have highest concentrations of zinc, nickel and copper. The road side vegetables have the highest lead concentration with Mean±SD value of 70.362±37.523 mg/kg followed by dump site with Mean±SD value of 10.937±4.781 mg/kg, p |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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