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Study the effect of unsafe leakage of chemicals from school laboratories on soil and water
Organization(s):Alrefah basic school
Country:Oman
Student(s):Futun AlDarai
Sarah ALSwai
Bashir ALJulanti
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Teacher:seham alhasania
Contributors:the Agricultural Research Center in Wilayat Al-Kamil and Al-Wafi to examine the soil
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report, Standard Research Report
Protocols:Dissolved Oxygen, Salinity, Water Temperature, pH, Soil Characterization, Soil Temperature, Soil pH
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Language(s):English, Arabic
Date Submitted:03/10/2020
• This research aims to study the danger of the unsafe leakage of toxic and dangerous chemicals to the environment, by studying the leakage of a sewage pipe into the school laboratory and the arrival of this leakage to the soil
• As well as studying the effect of expired chemicals in the school laboratory and accumulating them for a long period of up to long years. To achieve these goals, research questions were developed as follows:
• 1-What are the dangerous, toxic, and expired chemicals in school laboratories?
2-How does the leakage of toxic and dangerous chemicals affect environmental pollution?
• 3-What are the methods of measuring this pollution, and do the ratios present represent a real danger to the environment?
• 4-What are the scientific and innovative methods and methods that can be applied to address this problem?
• This study was applied in the South East Governorate in the Al-Rifaa School, targeting teachers, science teachers, technicians, and laboratory technicians from different schools through the distribution of an electronic questionnaire. A field visit to the Agricultural Research Center in Wilayat Al-Kamil and Al-Wafi to examine the soil.
• The results of the experiments indicated that the soil contaminated with chemicals leaking from the sewage pipes of the school laboratory and the presence of a rise in the soil salinity of 6 ds / m compared to the soil sample taken from a site far from the leakage of 2.9 ds / m as the soil needs a lower salinity ratio and the soil The pollutant gave a lower value to the pH = 4.3 (acid) compared to the soil far from the leakage site PH = 7.4, as the best rate of plant absorption of nutrients from the soil is at a higher level at acidity ranging between (6.5_7)
• According to the standard specifications.
The study recommends the need for the ministry to find effective solutions to this problem by the need to reduce throwing these materials into sewer pipes by placing special containers to dispose of these materials in laboratories or recycle them and use them to benefit the environment, such as using them to generate energy or use them as one of the fertilizers.