Environmental Systems Research

Table 7 Factor loadings obtained with unroasted factor matrix (surface samples)

From: A chemical and multivariate statistical approach to assess the spatial variability of soil quality for environment around the Tamabil coal stockpile, Sylhet

Parameters	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4
pH	0.51	− 0.47	0.38	− 0.23
Total nitrogen	0.04	− 0.08	− 0.44	− 0.84
OM	0.31	0.71	− 0.29	0.32
K	0.42	0.07	0.75	0.02
P	0.24	0.85	0.07	− 0.26
S	− 0.86	0.04	0.12	0.17
Fe	− 0.38	0.48	0.47	− 0.39
As	− 0.91	− 0.01	0.15	− 0.11

Italic values represent that level of significance among different parameters

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