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Sampling and characterization of air for organic compounds

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Computerized gas chromatography/mass spectrometry was applied to the analysis of organic compounds in air at a National Air Surveillance Network station in Kansas City. Sampling approaches used included particulate sampling, adsorption on XAD-2 resin followed by solvent elution, and adsorption on Tenax GC followed by direct desorption onto a gas chromatography column. Eighty-two compounds were identified. Unusually large amounts of phenol and phenolformaldehyde resin intermediates were found.

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  1. Region VII Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 66115, Kansas City, Kan., U.S.A.

    W. W. Bunn, E. R. Deane, D. W. Klein & R. D. Kleopfer

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Bunn, W.W., Deane, E.R., Klein, D.W. et al. Sampling and characterization of air for organic compounds. Water Air Soil Pollut 4, 367–380 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280722

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