background: in addition to gas pollutants, many chemicals and air pollutants are in the form of particulate matter. particulate matter consists of a complex mixture of variable sized particles and physicochemical composition. these particles mainly contain minerals including fe, al, ca, k, cu, ti, mn, ni, v and their size, chemical composition and concentration are important to assess the exten...

Contents of inorganic elements are very important traits in plants. Some of elements have causal effects on plant growth. Their effects on plant metabolism and therefore quality and quantity of essential oils is crucial. Thus, to obtain relatively good results, different parts of Rosa damascena Mill. genotypes were analyzed. Plants were collected from different provinces including Tehran, East ...

objective: in developing countries, nutritional deficiency of essential trace elements is a common health problem, particularly among pregnant women because of increased requirements of various nutrients. accordingly, this study was initiated to compare trace elements status in women with or without pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in this study, serum trace elements including zinc (zn), s...

the core sediment samples were analysed for grain size, carbonates (caco3), organic carbon (oc) to obtain a preliminary view of its environmental conditions near point calimere along the southeast coast of vedaranyam, india.the high concentration of sand in the core is attributed to the tidal influence at the akkarapallivasal river mouth. the sea water which enters the river suspends the floccu...

the aim of the study is to determine the major source and extent of metal pollution in the vicinity of dashkasan gold mine. dashkasan mine has resulted in extensive contamination of soils by arsenic (as) and potentially toxic ore-related elements including mercury (hg), antimony (sb) and cadmium (cd). soils samples were collected and analyzed for as, cd, hg, pb and sb. the concentration of each...