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Students Gather Soil - and Educate City Residents on Lead Levels

Students of St. John Fisher CollegeStudents in CHEM 316: Analytical Chemistry Lab partnered with 3 Rochester, NY neighborhoods to test soil for the presence of lead. Collect soil was tested and neighborhood residents received reports summarizing the analyzed data relative to EPA standards. Students learned about the risks and health effects associated with lead poisoning and became skilled in well-established protocols of collecting soil samples from area homes and analyzing them for lead using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS).

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Lynn Donahue
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St. John Fisher College