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Main Title Identification of Organic Compounds in a Mutagenic Extract of a Surface Drinking Water by a Computerized Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry System (GC/MS/COM).
Author Coleman, W. Emile ; Melton, Robert G. ; Kopfler, Frederick C. ; Barone, Karen A. ; Aurand, Theresa A. ;
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH.
Year Published 1980
Report Number EPA-600/J-80-238;
Stock Number PB81-165870
Additional Subjects Water analysis ; Organic compounds ; Potable water ; Water pollution ; Gas chromatography ; Mass spectroscopy ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Amides ; Aromatic polycyclic compounds ; Reprints ; Water pollution detection ; Cincinnati(Ohio) ; Polychlorinated biphenyls
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NTIS  PB81-165870 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 15p
Abstract
The organics in a Cincinnati, Ohio drinking water sample were concentrated by a reverse osmosis (RO) process. The diethyl ether soluble extract of the RO concentrate which proved to be mutagenic in studies using the Ames test, was partitioned into acid and base/neutral fractions. The unpartitioned ethyl ether concentrate, an acid and methylated acid fraction, the unpartitioned base/neutral extract, and five base/neutral eluants from a silica gel microcolumn were analyzed for the presence of organics using a computerized gas chromatography/mass spectrometry system (GC/MS/COM) equipped with glass capillary columns. Analysis of individual fractions indicated a predominance of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated aromatics in the second base/neutral partition and many polynuclear aromatics (PNA) in the fourth base/neutral partition. Approximately 460 compounds were identified in this tap water extract, including 41 PNAs, 15 PCBs, and a number of amines, amides, and other halogenated species.