Environmental Systems Research

Table 8 Factor loadings obtained with unroasted factor matrix (sub-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	0.01	0.06	0.88	− 0.44
Total nitrogen	− 0.24	− 0.85	0.09	0.003
OM	0.67	0.05	− 0.41	− 0.45
K	− 0.81	0.31	0.08	0.26
P	0.75	0.37	− 0.01	0.08
S	− 0.48	− 0.16	− 0.24	− 0.69
Fe	− 0.28	0.80	0.04	− 0.20
As	− 0.81	0.15	− 0.32	− 0.07

Italic values represent that level of significance among different parameters

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