2021
DOI: 10.22146/ijc.58304
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Spatial Distribution of Heavy Metals in Al-Zarqa, Jordan

Abstract: Al-Zarqa is experiencing challenges in industry conversion and extensive urbanization. The environmental quality of soil in the Al-Zarqa region was analyzed by Spatial analysis for the identification of sources and estimation of the concentration of heavy metals, which helped in the assessment of soil quality and heavy metal pollution. The reason for the elevation of heavy metal pollution is increased urbanization, industrialization, traffic, oil refinery emissions, and mixed anthropogenic sources in that regi… Show more

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“…A wide variety of inorganic and organic toxic pollutants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, or pesticides can be transferred with the air from the street into the indoor environment and attach to house dust particles [11,[27][28]. Among these pollutants, heavy metals are chemical compounds that normally occur in nature, but different anthropogenic sources can also introduce them in significant amounts in different environmental elements (water, soil, and air) [28][29]. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), heavy metals are classified as toxic and carcinogenic substances, and different health organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) have established the maximum permissible limits for these metals as reported by the recent literatures [18,[30][31].…”
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“…A wide variety of inorganic and organic toxic pollutants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, or pesticides can be transferred with the air from the street into the indoor environment and attach to house dust particles [11,[27][28]. Among these pollutants, heavy metals are chemical compounds that normally occur in nature, but different anthropogenic sources can also introduce them in significant amounts in different environmental elements (water, soil, and air) [28][29]. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), heavy metals are classified as toxic and carcinogenic substances, and different health organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), or the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) have established the maximum permissible limits for these metals as reported by the recent literatures [18,[30][31].…”
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“…Heavy metals like iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), or magnesium (Mg) are essential micronutrients for human life but are toxic at elevated levels [31][32][33][34]. On the other side, toxic heavy metals like cobalt (Co), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), Nickel (Ni), or arsenic (As) are the most hazardous environmental pollutants when permissible concentration limits are exceeded [28][29][34][35][36]. In urban environments, heavy metals originate from different anthropogenic sources such as vehicle emissions, disposal of municipal and industrial wastes, fossil fuel combustion, wear of brake lining materials, and use of large quantities of fertilizers and metal-based pesticides [28,31,35,37].…”
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