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Main Title Extraction and Determination of Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Plant Tissues.
Author Coates, J. T. ; Elzerman, A. W. ; Garrison, A. W. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Athens, GA. ;Clemson Univ., SC.
Year Published 1986
Report Number EPA/600/J-86/091;
Stock Number PB86-217015
Additional Subjects Aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons ; Plant tissues ; Extraction ; Acetonitrile ; Pentane ; Gas chromatography ; Chromatographic analysis ; Recovery ; Ionization ; Grasses ; Irrigation ; Sewage treatment ; Pyrenes ; Florinl organic compounds ; Reprints ; Florenes ; Anthenes
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Abstract A procedure has been developed for analysis of plant material for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Sonication is used to extract the PAHs from homogenized plant material into acetonitrile and then the PAHs are partitioned into pentane. The pentane extract is fractionated on a micro silicic acid column and is analyzed by capillary gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. Overall method recoveries for 16 PAHs spiked into hybrid grain sorghum ranged from 45 to 90 percent, with relative standard deviations ranging from 3 to 38 percent and averaging 17 percent. The method can be used to measure PAHs in hybrid grain sorghum, fescue grass, and similar plants at the 25 microgram/kg level. The procedure was applied to a preliminary study of PAH uptake by sorghum and fescue irrigated with secondary treated municipal wastewater spiked with 5 PAHs. Accumulation of fluoranthene and pyrene by fescue and hybrid grain sorghum from the PAH-contaminated irrigation water was apparent.
Supplementary Notes Pub. in Jnl. of Association of Official Analytical Chemists, v69, n1 p110-114 Jan-Feb 86. Prepared in cooperation with Clemson Univ., SC.
NTIS Title Notes Journal article.
Title Annotations Reprint: Extraction and Determination of Selected Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Plant Tissues.
PUB Date Free Form c1986
Category Codes 2D; 7D; 68D; 98D; 99A
NTIS Prices PC A02/MF A01
Primary Description 600/01
Document Type NT
Cataloging Source NTIS/MT
Control Number 625516886
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Type CAT