The results of a comparative investigation on urban and natural matrices (soil, road, and tunnel dust) from Latium (central Italy) are used to evaluate the influence of catalyzed traffic emission on the distribution of Pt and rare earth elements (REE). Normalized REE data show that REE distribution pattern in urban soils is strictly related to natural background. Road dust, although collected directly on asphalt and so richer in catalyst particles, do not show at the moment any significant difference: the results evidence that REE in urban samples substantially maintains their original geological mark. In addition, laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) technique is utilized to identify and analyse catalyst fragments in samples: in fact, the association of platinum group element-convoy-group element (PGE–Ce) or PGE–lanthanum (La), as high intensity peaks found in urban matrices, reveals the presence of catalyst particles.
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Angelone, M., Spaziani, F., Cremisini, C., Salluzzo, A. (2007). Determination of PGE and REE in urban matrices and fingerprinting of traffic emission contamination. In: Morrison, G.M., Rauch, S. (eds) Highway and Urban Environment. Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6010-6_25
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