Research Article
Elemental Studies of Soil and Food Flour for Risk Assessment of Highway Pollution Using Particle-Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) Spectrometry
Table 3
Comparison of the analyzed parameters in the contaminated soil samples with other Nigerian and British soils.
| | Element (μg/g) |
Nigerian soils |
British (M6) motorway soil [27] | | This study (mean and range) | Olajire and Ayodele [10] (mean and range) |
| | S | 495.1–2209.2 (1472) | N.A | N.A | | Cl | 371.8–3376.5 (1660.9) | N.A | N.A | | K | 3888.2–12042.8 (8622.2) | N.A | N.A | | Ca | 3803.9–20485.8 (9876.1) | N.A | N.A | | Ti | 787.6–3943.8 (2079) | N.A | N.A | | V | 26.6–84.6 (51.4) | N.A | 21.3 | | Cr | 120.7–300.2 (193.3) | 22.4–63.6 (45.32) | 679.8 | | Mn | 282.6–528.0 (379.1) | 97.1–386 (172) | 885.9 | | Fe | 7797.2–34537.4 (23708.4) | 1790–4424 (2541) | 57000 | | Zn | 226.0–1093.1 (568.1) | 54.8–125 (95.2) | 1421.9 | | Zr | 88.4–625 (306.2) | N.A | N.A |
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