DocumentCode
3342430
Title
Notice of Retraction
Seasonal Variation in Heavy Metals Concentration in Road Side Soil of District Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India)
Author
Joshi, P.C. ; Semwal, M. ; Joshi, N.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Zoology & Environ. Sci., Gurukula Kangri Univ., Haridwar, India
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Assessment of physicochemical properties and concentration of the heavy metals in road side soil of Haridwar city in India was carried out during the three different seasons of a year. Soil samples were collected from six sites with varying traffic volume and driving style (stop vs. constant speed) and analyzed for five heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni). Their concentration and distribution in different road verge were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (SIEMENS SRS 3000 sequential X-RAY photometer and ICPMS). The concentration of Pb, Cu, Zn, Ni, Cd contents ranged between 20.71±2.60 to 34.50±4.93 μg/g, 34.02±4.79 to 61.73±2.28 μg/g, 64.08±2.91 to 181.73±4.42 μg/g, 7±3.01 to 26.48±3.74 μg/g, <;1μg/g, respectively.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Assessment of physicochemical properties and concentration of the heavy metals in road side soil of Haridwar city in India was carried out during the three different seasons of a year. Soil samples were collected from six sites with varying traffic volume and driving style (stop vs. constant speed) and analyzed for five heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, Ni). Their concentration and distribution in different road verge were determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (SIEMENS SRS 3000 sequential X-RAY photometer and ICPMS). The concentration of Pb, Cu, Zn, Ni, Cd contents ranged between 20.71±2.60 to 34.50±4.93 μg/g, 34.02±4.79 to 61.73±2.28 μg/g, 64.08±2.91 to 181.73±4.42 μg/g, 7±3.01 to 26.48±3.74 μg/g, <;1μg/g, respectively.
Keywords
geochemistry; soil; Cd; Cu; Haridwar city; ICPMS; India; Ni; Pb; SIEMENS SRS 3000 sequential X-RAY photometer; Uttarakhand; Zn; atomic absorption spectrophotometer; heavy metal concentration; physicochemical properties; road side soil; seasonal variation; soil samples; traffic volume; Copper; Lead; Neodymium; Nickel; Roads; Soil;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781349
Filename
5781349
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