Analysis of particulate matter in street dust of middle and eastern parts of Northern Cyprus

Air pollution is the negative shift and change in the composition of the environment comprising of gaseous components and particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter can either be coarse particles, fine particles, and ultrafine particles; the composition of particulate matter depends on the sources from which it came from (Li et al. 2018). Combustion sources such as traffic emission or residential heating produce carbonaceous particles, they are carbon based as they pull along organic chemicals such as reactive metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Desert dust and mineral dust from agriculture produce inorganic particles. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2), volatile organic compounds, and carbon monoxide (CO) are toxic gaseous pollutants that adds to the formation of particle from the complex atmospheric photochemical reactions, they are called secondary particles (Bourdrel et al. 2017).