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Magnetic particles in atmospheric particulate matter collected at sites with different level of air pollution

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Magnetic measurements of deposited atmospehric dust can serve as an additional parameter in assessing environmental pollution. This method is based on the assumption that atmospherically deposited particles contain significant portion of ferrimagnetic iron oxides of anthropogenic origin, which can be easily detected. Aim of this paper is to identify clearly magnetic fraction of daily samples of particulate matter less than 10 μm (PM10), routinely used for air quality assessment and monitoring. We used combination of thermomagnetic analyses and other physical and chemical methods, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Our results show that daily samples of PM10, collected at sites with different degree of atmospheric pollution, contain magnetite of spherical shape, which is presumably of industrial origin. Thus, magnetic methods can be applied directly to the same substances, which are used routinely in air quality assessment and monitoring.

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  1. Institute of Geophysics AS CR v.v.i., Boční II/1401, 141 31, Praha 4, Czech Republic

    Eduard Petrovský, Aleš Kapička & Hana Grison

  2. Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Palacký University, Šlechtitelů 11, 783 71, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Radek Zbořil

  3. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry AS CR v.v.i., 250 68, Řež, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Matys Grygar

  4. National Institute of Public Health, Šrobárova 48, 100 42, Praha 10, Czech Republic

    Bohumil Kotlík

  5. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Na Šabatce 17, 143 06, Praha 4, Czech Republic

    Jiří Novák

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Petrovský, E., Zbořil, R., Grygar, T.M. et al. Magnetic particles in atmospheric particulate matter collected at sites with different level of air pollution. Stud Geophys Geod 57, 755–770 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-013-0814-x

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