Abstract: The study was conducted to investigate the emissions of trace metals from biomass burning at the cooking stoves and in household dusts. Black solid materials deposited from different types of biomass burning at the cooking stoves were collected from inside the roofs of the kitchens. Household dusts were collected repeatedly from different parts of houses such as top of furniture, roof of refrigerator and floor. Lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, potassium and iron were identified in black solid materials, and lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel and zinc were identified in household dusts. The average contents of Pb, Cd, Zn, Cu, K and Fe were 38.565, 1.885, 155.793, 21.358, 141.1......
Key words: Heavy metal pollution, Biomass burning, Household dusts, Rural area, Urban area, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometery.
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