ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022
Source apportionment, ecological, and human health risks of toxic metals in road dust of densely populated capital and connected major highway of Bangladesh.
Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Health risk assessment and source tracking of heavy metal exposure from indoor settled dust in an environmentally vulnerable area of the Republic of Korea.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Heavy Metal Pollution and Risk Assessment of Surface Dust in the Arid NW China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study investigates pollution levels, source apportionment, ecological, and human health risks associated with toxic metals (Pb, As, Hg, Cr, and Cd) in road dust from the most populated Dhaka city and a connected major highway in Bangladesh. The mean concentration of Pb, Hg, and Cd were 1.3, 29.3, and 13.2 times higher than their corresponding background values with spatially uneven distribution all over the study area. Metal pollution indices, the geo-accumulation index (I
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