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Sequential Extraction of Some Heavy Metals in Southwest Giza Soil, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

The pollution of agriculture soil in southwest Giza, Egypt with As, Cd, Pb and Cr were assessed by the application of Index of Geoaccumulation (Igeo) and five steps sequential extractions technique. The results indicated that the soils are muddy sand, alkaline (pH ≈ 8.3), calcareous (CaCO3>5%) and have low organic matter (3.1%). Soil contains about 142.8, 1.7, 123.5 and 209.1 ppm of As, Cd, Pb and Cr, respectively. The Igeo indicated that the soils of the study area ranged from uncontaminated-moderately to extremely contaminated. The sequential extraction explained the incorporation of Pb and Cr in the residual fraction and the incorporation of As and Cd in the carbonate fraction. The exchangeable fraction contains 9, 7.9, 5.1 and 2.6% of As, Cd, Pb and Cr extracts, respectively. The environmental risk in the study area comes from the presence of 10.4 ppm As in the exchangeable fraction. The risk assessment code illustrated that Pb ranged from low to medium risk, Cr medium to high risk, As high to very high risk and Cd shows very high risk. These results reflect the mixed sources (geogenic and anthropogenic) of metals in the soil of the study area.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2018.3180.1271

Keywords

Bioavailable, Giza, Egypt, Heavy metals, anthropogenic, sequential extraction, soil pollution

Authors

First Name

Salman

Last Name

Salman

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Geological Sciences Dept., Inorganic Chemical Industries and Mineral Resources Research Division, National Research Centre

Email

sal_man19@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0002-2173-0438

First Name

Elsayed

Last Name

Abu El Ella

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Geology Dept, Faculty of Science, Assiut University

Email

abuelellaem@gmail.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Elnazer

MiddleName

Abdefattah

Affiliation

Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre,Giza Egypt

Email

nazer42@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-7338-0935

Volume

61

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

2054

Issue Date

2018-10-01

Receive Date

2018-03-11

Publish Date

2018-10-01

Page Start

785

Page End

797

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_9009.html

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=9009

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5

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Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Sequential Extraction of Some Heavy Metals in Southwest Giza Soil, Egypt

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22 Jan 2023