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@article{182942,
        author = {Ramet Meena},
        title = {Determination of Heavy Metals and Their Correlation with Uranium in Water of Baran District of Rajasthan, India},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {3696-3703},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=182942},
        abstract = {The heavy metal analysis of ground water samples was done by collecting 40 samples including pre and post monsoon sampling from 40 villages of 8 tehsil of the area under investigation. The concentrations of heavy metals copper, iron, zinc, cobalt and lead were determined using the direct air- acetylene and the concentrations of aluminium were determined using the direct air- acetylene- nitrous oxide atomic absorption spectrometer and determination of uranium in groundwater by the LED Fluorimetry. The heavy metals have been studied for their health hazards and the concentration is correlated with uranium and recommended safe limits as suggested by various protection agencies. All groundwater samples have resulted in Cu, Zn, Fe under the permissible limits by BIS, 2012 in the study area which makes it fit for drinking and other domestic purposes but 70% the ground water samples exceeded the desirable limit for Pb in pre monsoon and 37% samples have exceeded the limit for Pb content in post monsoon as per BIS, 2012. 50% the ground water samples exceeded the desirable limit for Al in pre monsoon and 42% the ground water samples exceeded the desirable limit for Al in post monsoon and 29% samples have exceeded the limit for Co content in post monsoon as per BIS, 2012 due to the area falls in the baran district of Rajasthan and there is widespread use of pesticides such as atrazine, chlordane, dibromochloropropane, endrin, heptachlore, lindane etc and fertilizers such as urea, superphosphate, diammonium phosphate and NPK etc. A weak positive correlation has been observed between U and Fe, Pb in pre monsoon and U and Pb, Al in post monsoon so significant positive correlation between the heavy metal indicated that the metals are from the same source of origin but there is weak negative correlation between U and Cu, Zn, Co, Al in pre monsoon and U and Cu, Zn, Fe, Coin post monsoon which may be due to the different origin of both the metals in the area groundwater. Uranium is mostly from the natural earth crust while Pb, Al is through vehicular activities, pesticides, fertilizers, industrials effluents and manmade activities. Therefore, continuous monitoring of heavy metals in soils must be ensured to aware the consumers to mitigate the health-related problems occurring due to uranium and other heavy metals. The results carouse that drinking water defiled with heavy essence is prone to radiological and chemical pitfalls for occupants. A large population is using ground water as drinking purpose; hence they're at the high threat of heavy essence toxin.},
        keywords = {Heavy metals, Quantitative analysis, Uranium, LED Fluorimetry, AAS.},
        month = {July},
        }