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Static subcritical water extraction with simultaneous solid-phase extraction for determining polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on environmental solids.

S B Hawthorne·S Trembley·C L Moniot·C B Grabanski·D J Miller
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A rapid and very simple method for extracting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from soils, sediments, and air particulate matter has been developed by coupling static subcritical water extraction with styrene-divinylbenzene (SDB-XC) extraction discs. Soil, water, and the SDB-XC disc are placed in a sealed extraction cell, heated to 250 degrees C for 15 to 60 min, cooled, and the PAHs recovered from the disc with acetone/methylene chloride. If the cells are mixed during heating, all PAHs with molecular weights from 128 to 276 are quantitatively (>90%) extracted and collected on the sorbent disc and are then recovered by shaking with acetone/methylene chloride. After water extraction, the sorbent discs can be stored in autosampler vials without loss of the PAHs, thus providing a convenient method of shipping PAH extracts from field sites to the analytical laboratory. The method gives good quantitative agreement with standard Soxhlet extraction, and with certified reference materials for PAH concentrations on soil, sediment (SRM 1944), and air particulate matter (SRM 1649a).

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Environmental PollutantsGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryPolycyclic CompoundsReproducibility of ResultsWaterJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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S B Hawthorne, S Trembley, C L Moniot, C B Grabanski, D J Miller. 2000-07-21. Static subcritical water extraction with simultaneous solid-phase extraction for determining polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on environmental solids.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9673(00)00491-x

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