Study Of Trace Elements In Hair From A Selected Male Population In Penang And Fallujah Using Xrf
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Date
2014-02
Authors
Ali Aldroobi, Khalid Saleh
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The state of Penang encompasses an industrial region with a potential for the
existence of a variety of industrial pollutants which would certainly have a possible
impact on the environment and the people. Similarly, the city of Fallujah in Iraq has
been exposed to a lot of toxic materials in the form of chemical weapons during the war
in 2004. Such exposure would certainly have a detrimental impact on the environment
and the people in these two cities. Although it has been argued that knowledge of the
natural levels of trace elements in hair is extremely essential for assessing the degree of
human contamination in areas where these elements are expected to show anomalous
concentrations, these data from hair samples from Penang and Fallujah are not available.
In this study, arsenic, mercury, lead, iron, copper and zinc in hair samples from Penang
and Fallujah were analysed to assess the environmental uptake of these elements. The
natural levels of trace elements in hair were hence monitored as reference values for the
assessment of the possible human contamination levels. In this work, the concentrations
of Hg, As, Cu, Zn, Fe and Pb in human scalp hair of 100 residents of Penang and 28 in
Fallujah were determined using XRF.
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Hair , Fallujah Using Xrf