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ORGANIC AND INORGANIC GASES by FTIR Spectrometry: METHOD 3800, Issue 1, dated 15 March 2003 - Page 9 of 47
TABLE 2. REPRESENTATIVE INFRARED DATA FOR THE COMPOUNDS OF TABLE 1
NOTE: The Limit of Detection (LOD) may vary from laboratory to laboratory, analyst to analyst, instrument to instrument, and day to day. Therefore, any determination of this value should be performed under the same conditions used for sample analysis and reported only with those analyses. It is stressed that the values below are only conservative estimates of the expected performance of this method.
| Compound | Analytical Region (cm-1) | Reference Spectrum Filenamesa | LOD at 10mb (ppm) | Max. conc. at 10mc (ppm) |
Max. RSAd (abs-cm-1) |
Reference Spectrum Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aromatic Hydrocarbons | ||||||
| Benzene | 3000 - 3150 | 015mav01.spc | 0.32 | 149 | .0360 | EPAe |
| o-xylene | 709 - 781 | 171mav01.spc | 0.65 | 150 | .0444 | EPAe |
| m-xylene | 782 - 805 | 172mav01.spc | 1.36 | 146 | .0377 | EPAe |
| p-xylene | 749 - 840 | 173mav01.spc | 1.17 | 151 | .0561 | EPAe |
| Styrene | 738 - 944 | 147mav01.spc | 1.84 | 150 | .0363 | EPAe |
| Toluene | 701 - 768 | tolmav01.spc | 1.16 | 463 | .0499 | EPAe |
| Aliphatic hydrocarbons | ||||||
| n-Hexane | 2778 - 3051 | 095mav01.spc | 0.10 | 150 | .0639 | EPAe |
| Ketones | ||||||
| Acetone | 1163 - 1265 | 192mav01.spc | 0.95 | 148 | .0211 | EPAe |
| 2-Butanone | 1127 - 1235 | mekmav01.spc | 0.27 | 463 | .0233 | 3Mf |
| Alcohols | ||||||
| Methanol | 941 - 1100 | 104mav01.spc | 0.28 | 151 | .0447 | EPAe |
| Halogented Hydrocarbons | ||||||
| Methylene Chloride | 701 – 789 | 117mav01.spc | 0.31 | 150 | .0620 | EPAe |
| Vinylidene Fluoride | 1080 – 1215 | dfemav05.spc | 0.21 | 25.7 | .0930 | 3Mf |
| Trichloroethylene | 762 – 966 | tcemav01.spc | 0.43 | 464 | .1071 | 3Mf |
| Tetraflouroethylene | 1080 – 1215 | tfemav05.spc | 0.17 | 25.7 | .0930 | 3Mf |
NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods, Fourth Edition
