Distribution (%) of enrichment factor values (based on eqn (1)) for 1528 soil samples across five-category enrichment factor indexa.
Pb | As | Mn | Cr | Ni | Cu | Cd | Zn | |
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No or minimal enrichment | 50.2 | 71.2 | 99.8 | 99.1 | 99.8 | 92.2 | 99.7 | 34.6 |
Moderate enrichment | 38.2 | 25.7 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 6.8 | 0.3 | 56.5 |
Significant enrichment | 10.2 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 8.8 | |||
Very high enrichment | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||||
Extremely high enrichment | 0.3 |
Fe was used as reference element.