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Radish plant was collected along with root and soil from the nearby area of a Municipal Solid Waste dumping site of the metropolitan city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India and analyzed for a wide range of elements using the EDXRF technique with a 109Cd point source and a Si(Li) detector. The samples comprized of the root-soil, root and leaves. For quality control purposes, NIST standard reference material (SRM) 1648 Urban Particulate Matter had also been analyzed using the same procedure as for the samples. Concentrations of elements with X-ray energies in the range of 3–20 keV in the soil around the root and their uptake pattern by the root and the leaves have been estimated.
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Gupta, D., Chatterjee, J.M., Ghosh, R. et al. Elemental uptake of radish grown near a Municipal Solid Waste dumping site by EDXRF. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 274, 389–395 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-007-1127-8
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