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Clean Sampling and Analysis of River and Estuarine Waters for Trace Metal Studies
Published on: July 1, 2016
Three-way multivariate analysis of metal fractionation results from sediment samples obtained by different sequential
M B Alvarez1, M Garrido, A G Lista
1Department of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Abstract:
Three typical schemes for metal fractionation were applied to analyse coastal surface sediment samples from Bahía Blanca estuary, where an important industrial emplacement is located. Also, three certified reference materials for total metal concentrations were analysed. The studied metals were cadmium, chromium, copper, lead and zinc because of their hazardous potential and related abundance in the estuary. The concentration of metals was determined by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). A three-way multivariate analysis was performed in order to obtain a better visualization of the experimental data. The extracted information was used to evaluate the equivalence among the results obtained by the three sequential extraction schemes. The data were analysed by parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC). PARAFAC models with two factors describe appropriately the data sets (explained variance about 54% and core consistency of 100%). The multivariate decomposition showed that the three applied schemes are able to describe equally well the behaviour of the metals in the different sediment fractions.
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