Journal article

Mobility of antimony in soil and its availability to plants


Authors listHammel, W; Debus, R; Steubing, L

Publication year2000

Pages1791-1798

JournalChemosphere

Volume number41

Issue number11

ISSN0045-6535

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00037-0

PublisherElsevier


Abstract
In a historical mining area residual material has been filled on land and these locations are used today as agricultural soils or house gardens. The antimony concentrations in these soils are up to 500 mg/kg. Antimony transfer into 19 vegetable and crop species was investigated. In grain and other storage organs up to 0.09 mg Sb/kg were found, whereas maximum antimony concentrations in shoots and leaves were determined to be 0.34 mg Sb/kg and 2.2 mg Sb/kg, respectively. Despite the high antimony contamination of the soils, concentrations in the investigated plants in general corresponded to concentrations only reported for uncontaminated soils. NH4NO3 extraction of some of the soils indicated that the mobile fraction of antimony present was only 0.06-0.59%. In contrast, in leaves of spinach grown under controlled conditions in soils with a high mobile antimony content an accumulation of the element could be observed: a maximum value of 399 mg Sb/kg was detected, and a correlation between the mobile fraction in the soils and antimony in leaves was found. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.



Citation Styles

Harvard Citation styleHammel, W., Debus, R. and Steubing, L. (2000) Mobility of antimony in soil and its availability to plants, Chemosphere, 41(11), pp. 1791-1798. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00037-0

APA Citation styleHammel, W., Debus, R., & Steubing, L. (2000). Mobility of antimony in soil and its availability to plants. Chemosphere. 41(11), 1791-1798. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00037-0


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