Characteristics, source apportionment and health risk assessment of heavy metals in urban road dust of the Pearl River Delta, South China

To investigate the characteristics of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Hg, Ni and Zn) in urban road dust from different cities and functional areas in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), South China, a total of 294 dust samples were analyzed. The contamination characteristics and health risk of heavy meta...

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Main Authors: Chushan Huang, Lijuan Zhang, Jiuling Meng, Yunjiang Yu, Jianying Qi, Peng Shen, Xin Li, Ping Ding, Mianbiao Chen, Guocheng Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-05-01
Series:Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014765132200330X