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Main Title Comparison of wet chemical and instrumental methods for measuring airborne sulfate /
Author Appel, B. R. ; Kothny, E. L. ; Hoffer, E. M. ; Wesolowski., J. J.
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Appel, B. R.
CORP Author California State Dept. of Health, Berkeley. Air and Industrial Hygiene Lab.;Environmental Sciences Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Publisher Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency ; Available from the National Technical Information Service,
Year Published 1976
Report Number EPA-600/2-76-059; EPA-68-02-1660
Stock Number PB-264 201
OCLC Number 02657507
Subjects Sulfates ; Aerosols ; Air--Pollution ; Gases--Analysis ; Sulfates--Measurement
Additional Subjects Sulfates ; Laboratory equipment ; Aerosols ; Concentration(Composition) ; Chemical analysis ; Gas analysis ; Air pollution ; X ray analysis ; Fluorescence ; Sulfur ; Industrial wastes ; Combustion products ; Samples ; United States ; Particles ; Colorimetry ; Experimental design ; Accuracy ; Precision ; Comparisons ; Turbidimeters ; Air pollution detection ; Procedures ; Brosset method ; Methylthymol blue
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EJBD  EPA 600-2-76-059 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 02/24/2014
EKBD  EPA-600/2-76-059 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 06/13/2003
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-2-76-059 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ELBD  EPA 600-2-76-059 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 06/25/2019
ESAD  EPA 600-2-76-059 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-264 201 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Abstract
Four techniques for determination of water soluble sulfate in atmospheric samples were compared including the barium sulfate turbidimetric method, the Brosset (barium-Thorin) method, the automated barium-methylthymol blue procedure and a microchemical (barium-dinitro-sulfanazo III) colorimetric method developed at the Air and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory. These, in turn, were compared to x-ray fluorescence for determination of total sulfur, obtained independently at the Environmental Protection Agency's Research Triangle Park Laboratory. The parameters studied included precision and accuracy employing standard solution and ambient air samples, and the influence of twelve potential interferents. The ambient air samples studied were collected at different locations throughout the U.S. so that the influence of different particle matrices could be evaluated. As supplementary objectives, analyses of particulate matter samples collected simultaneously on high volume and low volume glass-fiber filters, with and without size segregation, were compared. Results of the study are presented. (Portions of the document are not fully legible.)
Notes
"EPA-600/2-76-059." "March 1976." Contract Number: 68-02-1660 "Project officer: Carole R. Sawicki"--Beneath title. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes
Four techniques for determination of water soluble sulfate in atmospheric samples were compared including the barium sulfate turbidimetric method, the Brosset (barium-Thorin) method, the automated barium-methylthymol blue procedure and a microchemical (barium-dinitro-sulfanazo III) colorimetric method developed at the Air and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory. These, in turn, were compared to x-ray fluorescence for determination of total sulfur, obtained independently at the Environmental Protection Agency's Research Triangle Park Laboratory. The parameters studied included precision and accuracy employing standard solution and ambient air samples, and the influence of twelve potential interferents. The ambient air samples studied were collected at different locations throughout the U.S. so that the influence of different particle matrices could be evaluated. As supplementary objectives, analyses of particulate matter samples collected simultaneously on high volume and low volume glass-fiber filters, with and without size segregation, were compared. Results of the study are presented. (Portions of the document are not fully legible.).