A preliminary assessment of potential ecological risk and soil contamination by heavy metals around a cement factory, western Saudi Arabia
Twenty surface soil samples (0-10 cm) and shoots of a perennial shrub Zygophyllum coccineum L. were collected around a cement factory on the western coast of Saudi Arabia, in order to assess concentrations of some heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn). The most noticeable among all heavy metals was P...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Open Chemistry |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/chem.2019.17.issue-1/chem-2019-0059/chem-2019-0059.xml?format=INT |