Determination of Metal Concentration in Road-Side Trees from an Industrial Area Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Reviewer 2 Report

The work was well conducted and has enough merit to be published, but only after major corrections of the text. There are many errors and unclear sentences, which I have noted directly on the pdf manuscript text (see attached file). My queries, corrections, and suggestions are also noted directly on the the same text.

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Reviewer 3 Report

I congratulate authors for nice contribution of LA-ICP-MS in dendrochemistry for study of environmental pollution.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Authors have improved the manuscript and answered several questions. However, in general the paper lack specific conclusions. Yes, too many parameters affect metal pollution and a good study requires investigating specific factor or factors with definite conclusions to make an impact. The conclusions reached in this paper are more general as expected. 

The few error bars randomly added should be briefly explained regarding what are the main factors affecting these errors and how it was determined.....

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Reviewer 2 Report

The text has been corrected and improved a lot. However, there are still some minor corrections to be made; they are marked in the pdf text (see attached file).

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