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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 521, 期 -, 页码 46-51出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.071
关键词
Perchlorate; Dust fall; Indoor; Urban; Malta; Fireworks
资金
- Government of Malta [519]
We report on the presence of perchlorate in the settleable dust of Malta, a small central Mediterranean island. Both dust fall collected directly as it precipitated from atmosphere over a period of one month and deposited from domestic residences were studied. Perchlorate was determined by ion chromatography of water extracts of the collected dusts. Dust fall was collected from 43 towns during 2011 to 2013 and indoor dust was sampled from homes in the same localities. Perchlorate was detected in 108 of 153 samples of dust fall (71%) and in 28 of 37 indoor dust samples (76%). Detectable perchlorate in dust fall ranged from 0.52 mu g g(-1) to 561 mu g g(-1) with a median value of 6.2 mu g g(-1); in indoor dust, levels were from 0.79 mu g g(-1) to 53 mu g g(-1) with a median value of 7.8 mu g g(-1), the highest recorded anywhere to date. Statistical analysis suggested that there was no significant difference in perchlorate content of indoor dust and dust fall. Perchlorate levels in dust fall escalate during the summer in response to numerous religious feasts celebrated with fireworks and perchlorate persists at low mu g g(-1) concentrations for several months beyond the summer festive period. In Malta, perchlorate derives exclusively from KClO4, imported for fireworks manufacture. Its residue in dust presents an exposure risk to the population, especially via ingestion by hand to mouth transfer. Our results suggest that wherever intensive burning of fireworks takes place, the environmental impact may be much longer lived than realised, mainly due to re-suspension and deposition of contaminated settled dust in the urban environment. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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