Vertical Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Soil Cores Taken from a Typical Electronic Waste Polluted Area in South China | Zendy

Zhongyi Yang | Zendy; Y. F. Li | Zendy; Yixuan Hou | Zendy; H. Y. Liang | Zendy; Zhanfen Qin | Zendy; Suhua Fu | Zendy

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Vertical Distribution of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Soil Cores Taken from a Typical Electronic Waste Polluted Area in South China

Author(s) -

Zhongyi Yang,

Y. F. Li,

Yixuan Hou,

H. Y. Liang,

Zhanfen Qin,

Suhua Fu

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543

H-Index - 70

eISSN - 1432-0800

pISSN - 0007-4861

DOI - 10.1007/s00128-009-9924-0

Subject(s) - polybrominated diphenyl ethers , environmental science , electronic waste , polybrominated biphenyls , china , environmental chemistry , ecotoxicology , southern china , distribution (mathematics) , pollutant , environmental engineering , waste management , chemistry , geography , ecology , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , archaeology , engineering

37 PBDE congeners were analyzed at six different depths in two soil cores taken from a typical electronic waste polluted area in South China. The PBDEs were congregated in the surface layer (0-5 cm) of soil cores and were 29 times in MK and 18 times in NW higher than the second lower layers (5-10 cm). As a whole, the concentrations of PBDEs were decreased with the soil depth increased in two cores. Lower brominated PBDE had higher penetrability than the deca-BDE in soil. The deca-BDE could be detected in deeper soil layers (15-20 cm in MK and 20-30 cm in NW) and the percentage of deca-BDE decreased with the increase of depth.

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