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Table 1.

Concentrations of individual PAHs, ∑16PAHs and ∑BPAHs in the samples from agricultural soil (AS), roadside soil (RS) and parkgreen space soil (PS) around the chemical plant.

PAH Compound	Abbr.	Carcinogenicity Classification	No. of Ring	Agriculture Soils (AS, mg/kg)			Roadside Soils (RS, mg/kg)			Park Green Space Soils (PS, mg/kg)
PAH Compound	Abbr.	Carcinogenicity Classification	No. of Ring	Range	Mean	Median	Range	Mean	Median	Range	Mean	Median
Naphthalene	Nap	2B	2	0.007–4.87	1.51	1.5	1.15–8.93	5.17	4.7	0.337–10.6	2.72	1.61
Acenaphthylene	Acel		3	ND-0.022	0.006	0.003	0.11–0.240	0.064	0.044	ND-0.109	0.027	0.016
Acenaphthene	Ace		3	ND-0.103	0.032	0.025	0.056–1.79	0.412	0.263	0.015–0.517	0.126	0.08
Fluorene	Flu		3	0.015–0.399	0.104	0.077	0.405–7.86	2.14	1.64	0.053–2.62	0.615	0.41
Anthracene	Ant		3	0.332–4.26	0.992	0.701	3.62–23.0	9.45	8.36	0.485–13.1	3.69	2.84
Phenanthrene	Phe		3	0.009–0.168	0.038	0.024	ND-12.9	1.37	0.435	0.016–0.907	0.181	0.12
Fluoranthene	Fla		4	0.140–2.41	0.546	0.397	ND-10.3	4.97	4.59	0.058–6.53	1.63	1.11
Pyrene	Pyr		4	0.135–2.49	0.502	0.341	0.288–10.2	4.72	4.58	0.007–6.29	1.44	1.00
Benz [a] anthracene	Baa	B	4	0.071–1.71	0.288	0.149	ND-6.02	2.51	2.43	ND-1.32	0.533	0.403
Chrysene	Chr	2B	4	0.190–3.49	0.62	0.348	ND-7.96	3.54	3.74	0.216–3.52	1.31	1.11
Benzo [b] fluoranthene	Bbf	2B	5	1.36–25.5	4.44	2.52	ND-39.0	3.35	0.327	ND-6.36	1.53	0.153
Benzo [k] fluoranthene	Bkf	2B	5	0.100–9.90	0.985	0.229	ND-19.5	8.97	10.4	ND-6.01	2.45	1.73
Benzo [a] pyrene	Bap	B	5	0.232–5.95	0.973	0.49	ND-35.3	16.1	15.8	0.435–22.1	5.55	4.01
Dibenz [a,h] anthracene	Daa	B	5	0.150–3.10	0.514	0.265	0.010–2.61	0.276	0.01	0.010–0.299	0.045	0.01
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene	Ind	2B	6	0.566–11.6	1.83	0.927	0.087–39.5	2.34	0.087	0.087–2.07	0.469	0.087
Benzo [g,h,i] perylene	Bghip		6	0.007–0.343	0.163	0.142	0.007–0.642	0.043	0.007	0.007	0.007	0.007
∑16PAHs				3.87–76.0	12.6	7.55	35.4–116.	65.5	60.7	5.93–66.5	22.3	19.9
∑BPAHs				3.22–66.1	11.2	5.99	20.2–94.2	42.3	39.4	3.82–36.4	14.6	16.8

Note: ND represents not detected; B, a group of PAHs which are probably carcinogenic to human [2]; 2B which are possibly carcinogenic to human; All other PAHs compounds are currently regarded as ‘not classifiable’ [3].