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Distribution and availability of potentially toxic metals in soil in central area of Belgrade, Serbia

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Belgrade, capital city of Serbia, has over 1,600,000 inhabitants and over 400,000 vehicles trafficking every day on its streets. The investigation of soil pollution was performed by sequential extraction analysis to investigate the availability of potentially toxic metals (Zn, Cd, Pb, Co, Ni, Cu, Cr and Mn) under different oxidation and pH conditions. All investigated metals were mainly extracted from soils with neutral or acidic extractants. Serious pollution was observed along roads and streets with high traffic frequency, but Pb and Ni pollution was the highest since their concentrations exceed both soil Serbian standard and Canadian guidance values and is characteristic for all investigated sites. Cd, Cu, Cr and Zn concentrations are moderately high since they are between Canadian guideline and Serbian standard.

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  1. Although arithmetic mean, geometric mean, median and standard deviation values are common statistical values to describe large data sets in our case only median values are reasonably considered from statistical point of view (Dixon and Massey 1983). Arithmetic mean value and standard deviation value are statistical parameters, relevant only for analytical measurement sets with normal (Gaussian) distribution. Since most of our measurement sets have skewed distributions median, minimum and maximum values are the only remaining statistical parameters that give meaningful average concentrations, appropriate for our discussion.

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This project was partly financed by the Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection of Serbia (project no. 146008), and partly by “Yugoimport SDPR” grant what is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Rabia Ahmed Ghariani, Ivan Gržetić & Snežana Nikolić Mandić

  2. Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6, 11081, Beograd-Zemun, Serbia

    Mališa Antić

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Ghariani, R.A., Gržetić, I., Antić, M. et al. Distribution and availability of potentially toxic metals in soil in central area of Belgrade, Serbia. Environ Chem Lett 8, 261–269 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-009-0215-0

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