Accumulation of arsenic and other metals in soil and human consumable foods of Meherpur district, southwestern Bangladesh, and associated health risk assessment

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Table 6 Varimax rotated principal component analysis and communalities of the metals of the soil samples

Parameters	PCA-1	PCA-2	Communalities
As	0.940	−0.042	0.885
Co	0.964	0.135	0.947
Ni	0.967	0.175	0.965
Cu	0.915	0.295	0.924
Zn	−0.087	0.963	0.934
Fe	0.956	0.277	0.991
Mn	0.974	0.138	0.968
Cr	0.978	0.165	0.984
Cd	0.517	0.545	0.564
Pb	0.853	0.413	0.898
Mg	0.303	0.897	0.897
Eigenvalue	8.142	1.816
Total variance %	68.166	22.366
Cumulative % of variance	68.166	90.532