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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Liu, Bi-Jun
• Wu, Feng-Chang
• Deng, Qiu-Jing
• Mo, Chang-Li
• Zhu, Jing
• Zeng, Li
• Fu, Zhi-You
• Li, Wen

Titel

Pollution characteristics of antimony, arsenic and mercury in human hair at Xikuangshan antimony mining area and Guiyang City, China

Ist Teil von

• Huanjing kexue, 2009-03, Vol.30 (3), p.907

Ort / Verlag

China

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The concentration levels of antimony, arsenic and mercury in human hair collected from Xikuangshan antimony mining area and Guiyang City were determined by hydride generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry after having been digested by nitric acid and perchloric acid. The contents of Sb, As and Hg are 15.9, 4.21, 1.79 microg/g in the samples from Xikuangshan antimony mining area and 0.532, 0.280, 0.338 microg/g in the samples from Guiyang City respectively. The contents of Sb, As and Hg in human hair of Xikuangshan antimony area are much higher than those of Guiyang City. The independent-samples t-test shows that there are no marked differences in the contents of Sb and As between male and female hair samples from both Xikuangshan antimony mining area and Guiyang City (p > 0.05), while Hg contents in male hair are apparently higher than those in female hair from Guiyang City (p < or = 0.05). There is positive correlation observed between As and Sb, as well as between As and Hg, while Sb is weakly correlated