Determination of Total petroleum hydrocarbons, 3,4-Benzo(a) pyrene and various factions of Heavy Metals Concentrations in Urban Soils and City Dust on the South-Eastern Administrative District, Moscowстатья
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Аннотация:It is common knowledge that urban soils have specific adverse features such as unpredictable
layering, poor structure, and high concentrations of trace elements (Kabata-Pendias, 2011). Urban
soils are the end points of a large amount of Heavy Metals (HM), poly-aromatic hydrocarbons, petroleum
hydrocarbons migration received from various sources including industrial emissions, the exhaust of internal
combustion engines, and products of the combustion of coal and other sources. The combination
of large amounts of people living in areas with large amounts of contaminated soil is one of the biggest
dangers to human health in a big city. The dust generated from these (urban) soils can be toxic when inhaled
or ingested by humans, particularly to children, posing a serious health hazard (Folinsbee, 1993).
Moreover, the contamination of urban soils can lead to migration of the pollutants into groundwater, as
the metals in the polluted urban soils tend to migrate to a greater extent than their unpolluted counterparts