Aims: The study was carried at the Idiroko Border Town in Ogun Southwestern Nigeria, a popular border known for movement of goods and service, an international border town a gateway for many ECOWAS countries is chosen known for movement of smuggled goods and services. The study w...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19163
Heavy metal pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem through improper management of dumpsites and indiscriminate dumping of waste has been recognised as a serious environmental concern in the city of Port Harcourt. It is important to validate the extent of contamination of...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2016/20594
Speciation of heavy metals (Zn, Fe, Cr, Cd, Cu and Pb) was carried out on the top and bottom sediment samples of two sampling sites in river Ilaje, Nigeria during the dry and rainy seasons. The samples were subjected to sequential extraction method and the extracts were analyzed...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/22031
Industrialization has been the major source of waste generation leading to heavy metal accumulation in soils. It has become major environmental challenge especially as it affects soil quality, biota, ecosystem processes and ground water pollution. This study was targeted at deter...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2016/19357
This study investigate the origin of heavy metal pollution and its associated ecological risks to the surrounding aquatic ecosystems in the Lagos Lagoon. Sediments samples from twelve selected stations, that covers the; Southern, central and North-Eastern segments of Lagos Lagoon...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/20334
Sample preparation is an important step of any analytical procedure. Considering low budget and limited unsophisticated technology available in small laboratories, it is necessary to carefully evaluate and optimise the efficiency of the conventional wet digestion method. The stud...
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Research Article10.9734/JSRR/2015/19717
Aims: To determine the hepatoprotective effects of concomitant administration of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) on cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) co-intoxicated rats. Study Design: Wistar rats were divided into five groups of four rats per group in metabolic cages. Group one was fed...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19787
Heavy metals constitute a major threat to humans due to the fact that they unlike some other pollutants are not biodegradable. Different Sources of these metals when dumped with municipal solid wastes raise the level of heavy metals in dumpsites. A study of the effect of solid wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ACSJ/2015/18039
Background: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is an atomic emission-type spectroscopy that can analyze any sample successfully and can be applied to gas, liquid, and solid samples. It can provide nonintrusive, qualitative and quantitative measurement of elements in vari...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18852
Water, sediments and catfish (Clarias gariepinus) samples obtained from two fishing settlements along River Kaduna at Shiroro and Zungeru in Niger State, Nigeria were analyzed for some selected heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) using Buck Scientific Model 210 VGP a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/19001
Periphyton and phytoplankton communities were compared and investigated in view of the environmental conditions at Ejirin part of Epe lagoon, from Dec. 2012 – May, 2013. This was to evaluate the effect of the environmental characteristics on the biotic communities. Surface water...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/18647
In a mixture of nitric acid and chloric acid, nitrate has been proven to be the oxidizing agent for the organic matrix to be digested. White precipitates obtained occasionally after microwave-assisted pressure digestion with potassium chlorate in dilute nitric acid solution, have...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/18714
Dumpsites are gradually turning into farm land with the belief that they must have accumulated necessary nutrient element required for plant growth and thus making some farmers to use refuse dumpsite material for composting not minding the type of waste that are involved and what...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/17855
Aims: The need to periodically monitor the mangroves of heavy metals pollution should not be overemphasized given the high premium placed on this ecosystem. The present study was aimed at evaluating mangrove sediments and tissues for heavy metals accumulation in the different tid...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2015/15801
Aims: To evaluate the free radical scavenging activity of organic solvent extracts and the toxic heavy metal contents of commercially available fruits sample of Tribulus terrestris Linn in the UAE. Methodology: Fruit samples were extracted with hexane, ethyl acetate, ethanol and...
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Research Article10.9734/EJMP/2015/18946