Analysis of indoor gaseous formic and acetic acid, using radial diffusive samplers

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 149, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 411-417

  Stranger, Marianne ^a,b   Potgieter Vermaak, Sanja ^a,d   Sacco, Paolo ^c   Quaglio, Franco ^c   Pagani, Diego ^c   Cocheo, Claudio ^c   Godoi, Ana Flavia Locateli ^e   Van Grieken, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^c IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e POSITIVO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diffusive sampler; Indoor; Ion chromatography; Organic acids

Indexed keywords

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; DETECTION LIMIT (DL); DIFFUSIVE SAMPLER; EXPOSURE TIME; INDOOR; RADIAL SYMMETRY; ROOM-TEMPERATURE (RT); SAMPLING METHODS; SAMPLING RATE (SR); VALIDATION PROGRAM; WIND SPEED (WS);

ACETIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONS; METAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PH; PH EFFECTS; SAMPLING;

FORMIC ACID;

ACETIC ACID; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ORGANIC ACID;

ACETIC ACID; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMIC ACIDS; HUMANS;

EID: 58649115384     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0217-6     Document Type: Article

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