Elemental analysis of commercial fertilizers in Iraqi market

摘要

Heavy metals in fertilizers are considered as a threat to life through taken up by plants and be present in edible tissue as a primary steps in whole pollution processes or toxicity. It is clear that the fertilizers vary in their metals content in the phosphate fertilizers. The aim of this study was to determine the concentration of (K, Na, and Zn) as common or major elements, (Ni and Co) as minor elements, and (Pb, Cd, Cr, and Cu) as environmental pollutants or toxic elements in 14 commercial phosphate fertilizers found in Iraqi market by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Our highest obtained results showed that cobalt, cadmium, chromium, lead, and nickel distributed in remarkable values in all collected samples