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TABLE 4. MEASUREMENT RANGE AND PRECISION a Measurement Substance
a
LOD (µg/sample)
Range (mg)
Precision ( Ö r)
benzene
0.5
0.004-0.35
0.013
p-tert-butyltoluene
1.1
0.013-1.09
0.017a
cumene
0.6
0.039-3.46
0.017
ethylbenzene
0.5
0.045-8.67
0.015
"-methylstyrene
0.6
0.036-3.57
0.014
$-methylstyrene
0.6
0.036-0.728
0.014
toluene
0.7
0.024-4.51
0.022
o-xylene
0.8
0.044-10.4
0.014
m-xylene
0.8
0.043-0.864
0.013
p-xylene
0.7
0.043-0.861
0.015
styrene
0.4
0.181-8.49
0.014
Corrected va lue, ca lculated from data in [5].
NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM), Fourth Edition
