Precautions for in-injection port thermal desorption-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (TD-GC/MS) as applied to aerosol filter samples

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1491-1496

  Ho, Steven Sai Hang ^a,b,c   Chow, Judith C ^a,b   Watson, John G ^a,b   Ting Ng, Louisa Pan ^c   Kwok, Yuk ^c   Ho, K F ^a   Cao, Junji ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Hong Kong Premium Services and Research Laboratory   (China)

Author keywords

Alkanes; GC MS; In injection port; Non polar organic; PAHs; Phthalates; Thermal desorption

Indexed keywords

ALKANES; GC/MS; INJECTION PORTS; NON-POLAR; PAHS; PHTHALATES;

ADSORPTION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ESTERS; GOLD; ION SOURCES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARAFFINS; QUARTZ; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DESORPTION;

EXTRACTION;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; GOLD; HOPANOID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHTHALIC ACID; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADSORPTION; ALKANE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESORPTION; FILTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PAH; PHTHALATE; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHINA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FILTER; JAPAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHINA; JAPAN;

EID: 79251618240     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.12.038     Document Type: Article

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