Serveis Tècnics de Recerca: Unitat d’Anàlisi Química i Estructural (II)

Unitat de recerca amb aparells com el d’espectrometria de masses amb plasma d’acoblament inductiu, el de líquid-masses, d’anàlisi elemental, de difracció de raigs X de pols i de monocristall o de fluorescència de raigs X

New insights on river water chemistry by using non-centred simplicial principal component analysis: a case study

The use of perturbation and power transformation operations permits the investigation of linear processes in the simplex as in a vectorial space. When the investigated geochemical processes can be constrained by the use of well-known starting point, the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix of a non-centred principal component analysis allow to model compositional changes compared with a reference point. The results obtained for the chemistry of water collected in River Arno (central-northern Italy) have open new perspectives for considering relative changes of the analysed variables and to hypothesise the relative effect of different acting physical-chemical processes, thus posing the basis for a quantitative modelling