Table 2.

Method validation for the extraction technique.

PAH	% Recovery (n = 5)	Coefficient of Variation
Acenaphthene (ACE)	85.1	7.1
Acenaphthylene (ACY)	83.2	6.9
Anthracene (ANTH)	82.8	6.1
Benzo[a]anthracene (B[a]A)	94.5	8.8
Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)	88.1	7.5
Benzo[b]fluoranthene (B[b]F)	74.8	3.5
Benzo[k]fluoranthene (B[k]F)	75.3	5.3
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene (B[ghi]P)	85.8	10.6
Chrysene (CHRY)	83.6	8.1
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene (D[ah]A)	76.1	13.5
Fluoranthene (FLTH)	70.7	8.3
Fluorene (FLU)	90.2	5.8
Indeno[1,2,3-c,d]pyrene (IND)	83.4	5.9
Phenanthrene (PHEN)	90.4	7.3
Pyrene (PYR)	67.4	5.0
Naphthalene (NAP)	85.6	4.6