Final Report - ICPDR

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Figure 4.1.3.11 Concentration of iron (mg dry weight/kg) in suspended solids
and sediment
Generally it can be concluded that the investigated triplet of compartments as
suspended solids, sediment and mussel tissues contained different amounts of
inorganic pollutants as follows: the suspended solid compartment contains always
bigger amount of any heavy metal component than the sediment. Usually both
compartments have bigger metal contamination than the mussels, except two metals.
Only the Cd and the Zn occurred in higher amounts in the investigated mussel
species than in the suspended solid and sediment phase. The amount of mercury
was the same in the sediment phase and in the mussel tissue. The average
concentration values are illustrated in Table 4.1.3.1.
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