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EFFECT OF CEMENT KILN DUST DEPOSITION ON THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SOIL IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF A CEMENT FACTORY

Volume : 84
Issue: Nov-dec
Pages: 675 - 678
Published: July 06, 2023
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Abstract


The effect of cement deposition on the soil physical and chemical properties in the neighborhood of Sankar Cements, 6 km away from Tirunelveli town was studied. A negative correlation was observed in the eastern direction for bulk density (-0.9**) and particle density (-0.8), and a positive correlation for porosity (0.8*). Likewise, in the chemical properties a negative correlation was observed for R2O3 (-0.81**), Ca (-0.079**). Na (-0.37**) and K (-0.87**). The values were deviating from the factory. This shows that a marked influence was observed on the eastern side of the factory due to the cement kiln dust upto 2.0 km from the factory.

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675 - 678
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Cement kiln dust soil pollution
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