Monitoring of the Deposition of PAHs and Metals Produced by a Steel Plant in Taranto (Italy)

Table 6

Correlation coefficients among PAHs and metals collected at the urban background site.

	BaA	BbF	BkF	BaP	IP	BgP	DBaA	Fe	Mn	Ni	As	Cd
BaA	1.00	0.98	0.98	0.90	0.96	0.90	0.63	−0.43	−0.42	−0.50	−0.01	−0.18
BbF		1.00	0.94	0.92	0.96	0.91	0.66	−0.35	−0.33	−0.45	0.11	−0.31
BkF			1.00	0.85	0.91	0.82	0.48	−0.53	−0.50	−0.57	−0.11	−0.07
BaP				1.00	0.96	0.92	0.76	−0.41	−0.39	−0.59	0.00	−0.36
IP					1.00	0.96	0.79	−0.44	−0.44	−0.55	−0.06	−0.29
BgP						1.00	0.82	−0.23	−0.29	−0.36	0.05	−0.33
DBaA							1.00	−0.11	−0.11	−0.40	0.13	−0.33
Fe								1.00	0.95	0.84	0.79	0.01
Mn									1.00	0.69	0.86	0.15
Ni										1.00	0.51	−0.10
As											1.00	−0.17
Cd												1.00