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Investigating geochemical factors affecting heavy metal bioaccessibility in surface sediment from Bernam River, Malaysia


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Kadhum, Safaa A. and Ishak, Mohd Yusoff and Zulkifli, Syaizwan Zahmir and Hashim, Rohasliney (2017) Investigating geochemical factors affecting heavy metal bioaccessibility in surface sediment from Bernam River, Malaysia. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24 (14). pp. 12991-13003. ISSN 0944-1344; ESSN: 1614-7499

Abstract

The present study applied the use of sequential extraction technique and simple bioaccessibility extraction test to investigate the bioavailable fractions and the human bioaccessible concentration of metals collected from nine stations in surface sediment of the Bernam River. The concentrations of total and bioaccessible metals from different stations were in the range of 0.30–1.43 μg g−1 and 0.04–0.14 μg g−1 for total cadmium and bioaccessibility of cadmium, respectively, 6.20–288 μg kg−1 and 2.06–8.53 μg kg−1 for total mercury and bioaccessibility of mercury, respectively, and 9.2–106.59 μg g−1 and 0.4–2.75 μg kg−1 for total tin and bioaccessibility of tin, respectively. The chemical speciation of Cd in most sampling stations was in the order of oxidisable-organic > acid-reducible > residual > exchangeable, while the chemical speciation of Hg was in the order of exchangeable > residual > oxidisable-organic > acid-reducible and the chemical speciation of Hg was in the order of residual > oxidisable-organic > acid-reducible > exchangeable. The principal component analysis showed that the main factors influencing the bioaccessibility of mercury in surface sediments were the sediment total organic matter, cation exchange capacity, and easily, freely, or leachable and exchangeable fraction, and the factors influencing the bioaccessibility of tin were the total tin and cation exchange capacity, while the bioaccessibility of Cd in surface sediments was influenced by the only factor which is the easily, freely, or leachable and exchangeable fraction.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Environmental Studies
Faculty of Science
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-8833-8
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: Bioaccessibility; Sediment; Hg; Cd; Bernam River
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 22 Apr 2019 06:56
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2019 06:56
Altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.1007/s11356-017-8833-8
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/62207
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