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. 2024 Jun 1;81(7):201. doi: 10.1007/s00284-024-03708-7

Table 2.

Soil chemical composition

Compound Concentration in soil (mg per kg of dry mass) Limit for agricultural soil (mg per kg of dry mass)
Heavy metals
Mercury (Hg) [mg/kg DM] 0.04 5
Chromium (Cr) [mg/kg DM] 9.2 500
Zinc (Zn) [mg/kg DM] 38 1000
Cadmium (Cd) [mg/kg DM] 0.2 5
Cobalt (Co) [mg/kg DM] 0.73 50
Copper (Cu) [mg/kg DM] 52 300
Molybdenum (Mo) [mg/kg DM] 0.32 50
Nickel (Ni) [mg/kg DM] 3.9 300
Lead (Pb) [mg/kg DM] 10 500
Aluminium (Al) [mg/kg DM] 530 Not specified
Iron (Fe) [mg/kg DM] 1100 Not specified
Manganese (Mn) [mg/kg DM] 1100 Not specified
Vanadium (V) [mg/kg DM] 2.7 Not specified
Organic compounds
Gasoline total (C6–C12) [mg/kg DM] 149 1
Mineral oil (C12–C35) [mg/kg DM] 110 50
Sum of presented BTEX 0.96 Not specified
- Benzene [mg/kg DM]  < 0.02 0.1
- Ethylbenzene [mg/kg DM]  < 0.02 0.1
- Toluene [mg/kg DM] 0.02 0.1
- m-, p-, o- Xylene [mg/kg DM] 0.94 0.1
- Styrene [mg/kg DM]  < 0.02 0.1
Sum of presented PAH [mg/kg DM] 1.02 not specified
- Naphthalene [mg/kg DM] 0.012 0.1
- Anthracene [mg/kg DM] 0.046 0.2
- Chrysene [mg/kg DM] 0.229 0.2
- Benzo(a)anthracene [mg/kg DM] 0.079 0.1
- Dibenz(ah)anthracene [mg/kg DM]  < 0.005 not specified
- Benzo(a)pyrene [mg/kg DM] 0.081 0.1
- Benzo(b)fluoranthene [mg/kg DM] 0.192 0.1
- Benzo(k)fluoranthene [mg/kg DM] 0.189 0.1
- Benzo(ghi)perylene [mg/kg DM] 0.104 0.2
- Indeno(123-cd)pyrene [mg/kg DM] 0.085 0.2