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Contamination and health risks of heavy metals in street dust from a coal-mining city in eastern China.

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Although the health risk levels from exposure to individual metals in dusts were low, the non-carcinogenic risks from multiple metals to local children exceeded the acceptable level (1.0), suggesting that the overall risk from Exposure to multiple metals in Dust is concerning.
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This article is published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 189 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coal dust & Pollution.

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Health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in soils along the Central Elbe River, Germany.

TL;DR: Arsenic was found to be the primary contributor to total risk, accounting of 57.4% of HI in all three- person groupings, and the presence of V, a less-expected element, among those of major risk contribution, reveals the necessity of monitoring areas at large scale.
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Pollution characteristics, sources, and health risk assessment of human exposure to Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb pollution in urban street dust across China between 2009 and 2018.

TL;DR: The health risk assessment indicated that ingestion is the most important pathway of exposure to metal pollution in street dust for both children and adults, followed by dermal contact and inhalation, and the health risks for children were higher than those for adults.
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A comprehensive analysis of heavy metals in urban road dust of Xi'an, China: Contamination, source apportionment and spatial distribution.

TL;DR: The location of point pollution sources and prevailing wind direction were found to be important factors in the spatial distribution of heavy metals and there was significant enrichment of Pb, Zn, Co, Cu and Cr based on geo-accumulation index value.
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Soil and maize contamination by trace elements and associated health risk assessment in the industrial area of Volos, Greece.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that this study should be pivotal concerning similar industrially-affected agricultural soils of suspected contamination, since less-expected toxic elements such as Tl here may be primary contributors to health risk.
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TL;DR: In this article, a sedimentological risk index for toxic substances in limnic systems should at least, account for the following four requirements: the following: the quality of the sediment, the water quality, the sediment quality, and the sediment diversity.
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Index of geoaccumulation in sediments of the rhine river

G Muller
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Lead (Pb) isotopic fingerprinting and its applications in lead pollution studies in China: A review

TL;DR: The history and current status of lead pollution in China is summarized, the power of Pb isotopic fingerprinting is illustrated with examples of its recent applications in investigating the effectiveness of leaded gasoline phase-out on atmospheric lead pollution, and the sources of PB found in various environmental media.
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Spatial distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in soil and combusted residue at Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling site in southeast China.

TL;DR: The crude processing of e-waste has become one of the major contributors of PBDEs and PCDD/Fs to the terrestrial environment and acid leaching and open burning emitted the highest concentrations.
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Potentially toxic metal contamination of urban soils and roadside dust in Shanghai, China.

TL;DR: Pb, Zn and Cu mainly originated from traffic contaminants; soil Ni was associated with natural concentration; Cd largely came from point-sourced industrial pollution; and Cr, Ni in dust were mainly related to atmospheric deposition.
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