Method | EPA Method 525.2 |
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Title | DETERMINATION OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN DRINKING WATERBY LIQUID-SOLID EXTRACTION AND CAPILLARY COLUNNGAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY |
Abstract | Organic compound analytes, internal standards, and surrogates are extracted from a water sample by passing 1 liter of sample water through a cartridge containing about 1 gram of a solid inorganic matrix coated with a chemically bonded Cl8 organic phase (liquid-solid extraction, LSE). The organic compounds are eluted from the LSE cartridge with a small quantity of methylene chloride, and concentrated further by evaporation of some of the solvent. The sample components are separated, identified, and measured by injecting an aliquot of the concentrated methylene chloride extract into a high resolution fused silica capillary column of a gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) system. Compounds eluting from the GC column are identified by comparing their measured mass spectra and retention times to reference spectra and retention times in a data base. Reference spectra and retention times for analytes are obtained by the measurement of calibration standards under the same conditions used for samples. The concentration of each identified component is measured by relating the MS response of the quantitation ion produced by that compound to the MS response of the quantitation ion produced by a compound that is used as an internal standard. Surrogate analytes, whose concentrations are known in every sample, are measured with the same internal standard calibration procedure. |
CAS # | Compound Name |
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208-96-8 | Acenaphthylene |
15972-60-8 | Alachlor |
309-00-2 | Aldrin |
120-12-7 | Anthracene |
1912-24-9 | Atrazine |
56-55-3 | Benz[a]anthracene |
205-99-2 | Benzo[b]fluoranthene |
207-08-9 | Benzo[k]fluoranthene |
50-32-8 | Benzo[a]pyrene |
191-24-2 | Benzo[g,h,i]perylene |
85-68-7 | Butylbenzylphthalate |
5103-71-9 | Alpha-chlordane |
5103-74-2 | Gamma-chlordane |
39765-80-5 | Trans nonachlor |
2051-60-7 | 2-Chlorobiphenyl |
218-01-9 | Chrysene |
53-70-3 | Dibenz[a,h]anthracene |
84-74-2 | Di-n-butylphthalate |
16605-91-7 | 2,3-Dichlorobiphenyl |
84-66-2 | Diethylphthalate |
103-23-1 | Di(2-ethylhexyl)adipate |
117-81-7 | Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate |
131-11-3 | Dimethylphthalate |
72-20-8 | Endrin |
86-73-7 | Fluorene |
76-44-8 | Heptachlor |
1024-57-3 | Heptachlor epoxide |
52663-71-5 | 2,2',3,3',4,4',6-Heptachlorobiphenyl |
118-74-1 | Hexachlorobenzene |
60145-22-4 | 2,2',4,4',5,6'-Hexachlorobiphenyl |
77-47-4 | Hexachlorocyclopentadiene |
193-39-5 | Indeno[1,2,3,c,d]pyrene |
58-89-9 | Lindane |
72-43-5 | Methoxychlor |
40186-71-8 | 2,2',3,3',4,5',6,6'-Octachlorobiphenyl |
60233-25-2 | 2,2',3',4,6-Pentachlorobiphenyl |
87-86-5 | Pentachlorophenol |
85-01-8 | Phenanthrene |
129-00-0 | Pyrene |
122-34-9 | Simazine |
2437-79-8 | 2,2',4,4'-Tetrachlorobiphenyl |
8001-35-2 | Toxaphene mixture |
15862-07-4 | 2,4,5-Trichlorobiphenyl |