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Black crusts on Venetian built heritage, investigation on the impact of pollution sources on their composition

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This paper deals with the characterization of black crusts collected from several historical buildings in the city of Venice. This city suffers from pollution from the industrial area of Marghera, as well as from the maritime traffic. Black crust can be considered as a passive sampler of pollutants, with particular reference to heavy metals. For this reason, in order to fully characterize those samples, several techniques were used, including scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy and ion chromatography. This integrated approach allowed us to gain information about the mineralogical phases and the elements within the crusts giving the possibility to identify the pollution sources causing the stone decay within the buildings, as well as the variability in composition depending on the exposure of the analyzed surfaces.

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  1. Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, Rende, Cosenza, Italy

    Mauro F. La Russa, Donatella Barca, Natalia Rovella, Marco Aquino & Silvestro A. Ruffolo

  2. Department of Chemistry, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Valeria Comite & Paola Fermo

  3. Faculty of Petroleum and Mining Engineering, Suez University, Suez, Egypt

    Nevin Aly

  4. Laboratorio di Analisi dei Materiali Antichi (LAMA), University Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy

    Fabrizio Antonelli

  5. Department of Mulecular Science and Nanosystems, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy

    Elena Tesser

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La Russa, M.F., Comite, V., Aly, N. et al. Black crusts on Venetian built heritage, investigation on the impact of pollution sources on their composition. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 133, 370 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2018-12230-8

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