dc.creatorGredilla, Ainara
dc.creatorFdez-Ortiz De Vallejuelo, Silvia
dc.creatorGomez Nubla, Leticia
dc.creatorCarrero, Jose Antonio
dc.creatorDe Leão, Felipe Baptista
dc.creatorMadariaga, Juan Manuel
dc.creatorSilva Oliveira, Luis Felipe
dc.date2018-11-16T22:15:45Z
dc.date2018-11-16T22:15:45Z
dc.date2017-09-09
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-03T20:00:18Z
dc.date.available2023-10-03T20:00:18Z
dc.identifier0944-1344
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11323/1193
dc.identifier10.1007/s11356-017-9831-6
dc.identifierCorporación Universidad de la Costa
dc.identifierREDICUC - Repositorio CUC
dc.identifierhttps://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/9173770
dc.descriptionIn city playgrounds, there is a potential risk of harming children’s health by contamination coming from anthropogenic activities. With the aim to determinate the sources and the risk of hazardous elements, soil samples were collected in 19 selected playgrounds of different urban and rural areas from the Rio Grande do Sul state (Brazil). The concentration of 23 metals and metalloids and lead isotopic ratios were determined by ICP-MS. The methodology proposed here, firstly, classified the parks according to the average metal content by means of the NWACs (Normalized-and-Weighted Average Concentrations) and assess the contamination risk determining the Contamination Factors (CFs). Finally, statistical tools (correlation analysis and principal component analysis) were used to identify the most important contamination sources. The statistical tools used, together with lead isotopic composition analysis of the samples, revealed that coal combustion is the main source of contamination in the area. Vegetation was identified as a barrier for the contamination coming from the city. Nonetheless, some of the soils present a possible toxicological risk for humans. In fact, Cr, Sb, and Pb concentrations were higher than the Residential Intervention Values (VIRs) defined by the Environmental Protection Agency of the State of São Paulo, also in Brazil.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.publisherEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research
dc.rightsAtribución – No comercial – Compartir igual
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subjectMetals
dc.subjectPlaygrounds
dc.subjectNormalized-And-Weighted Average Concentration
dc.subjectChemometric Analysis
dc.subjectHuman Health
dc.subjectICP-MS
dc.subjectLead Isotopic Ratio
dc.titleAre children playgrounds safe play areas? Inorganic analysis and lead isotope ratios for contamination assessment in recreational (Brazilian) parks
dc.typeArtículo de revista
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
dc.typeText
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