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BIO Web Conf.
Volume 108, 2024
International Scientific and Practical Conference “From Modernization to Rapid Development: Ensuring Competitiveness and Scientific Leadership of the Agro-Industrial Complex” (IDSISA 2024)
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| Article Number | 04008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| Section | Cell Biology and Biochemistry of a Cell of a Living Organism | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202410804008 | |
| Published online | 15 May 2024 | |
Determination of polystyrene concentrations in Kufa River/Iraq
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Kufa, Iraq
* Corresponding author: mohammedj.alhayderi@uokufa.edu.iq
Currently, microplastic (polystyrene) particles have become of interest to many researchers because they are emerging pollutants that affect the environment and living organisms, especially aquatic environments, because they are considered the largest storehouse of polystyrene. So, the current study comes to evaluate the concentrations of this pollutant in fresh water. To do this study, triplicate water samples were handled from two sites of Kufa River (upstream and downstream) during Jan. 2022. The diagnosis of MP was by using FTIR and SEM-EDS techniques, and the concentration of polystyrene was by using researchers modified spectrophotometric method. The results showed that the concentrations mean for two sites up and down stream was (20-70) µg/l, where FTIR spectra showed the presence of C-H bond and C≡C, while the SEM gave morphological characteristics of MP partials which contain cracks and zigzags on the surfaces of MP as a result of mechanical weathering and exposure to sunlight for long periods.
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