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Influence of the Soil Properties on the Physico-Chemical Behaviour of Cd, Zn, Cu and Pb in Polluted Soils

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The awareness that the chemical species play a more important role than the element itself in the transfer along the food chain, has brought about an increasing interest in determining the speciation of trace elements in environmental samples (1–2). We had the opportunity to study in various highly polluted soils the distribution and the availability of trace elements along the profile depth as a function of soil properties. The purpose was to determine in natural conditions the correlations between the migration of heavy metals in a profile, their availability and the chemical and mineralogical composition of the soils.

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture, Institute for Chemical Research, Museumlaan 5, B 1980, Tervuren, Belgium

    P. O. Scokart & K. Meeus-Verdinne

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  1. TNO Division of Technology for Society, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

    J. W. Assink

  2. TNO Corporate Communication Department, The Hague, The Netherlands

    W. J. Van Den Brink

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Scokart, P.O., Meeus-Verdinne, K. (1986). Influence of the Soil Properties on the Physico-Chemical Behaviour of Cd, Zn, Cu and Pb in Polluted Soils. In: Assink, J.W., Van Den Brink, W.J. (eds) Contaminated Soil. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5181-5_13

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