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. 2013 Apr 11;10(4):1489–1504. doi: 10.3390/ijerph10041489

Table 3.

Geometric mean concentrations (GM), geometric standard deviation (GSD) and 5th and 95th percentiles of HCHO, VOCs, and NO2 inside the bedroom and kitchen in the sampled flats (calculated from Table 2).

Bedroom Kitchen
GM GSD 5th percentile 95th percentile GM GSD 5th percentile 95th percentile
HCHO 33.5 1.73 16 82 32.3 1.70 14.9 91.0
VOCs (total) 74.1 1.56 37.5 187 73.5 1.45 43.3 154
Benzene 2.54 1.78 1.1 8.7 2.89 1.86 1.1 8.6
Butanol 9.03 2.06 2.2 34 8.62 1.77 2.2 20.9
Butyl acetate 3.69 2.14 1.2 16.4 3.51 1.98 1.1 11.3
Carbon tetrachloride 0.64 2.00 0.2 1.6 0.72 2.09 0.2 1.4
Chloroform 0.89 1.28 0.8 2.2 0.86 1.23 0.8 2.0
1,2-Dichloroethane 1.38 2.97 0.3 17.9 1.29 2.11 0.6 5.9
p-Dichlorobenzene 0.49 3.89 0.3 17.7 0.46 3.16 20.3 8.6
Hexane 1.43 1.97 0.2 4.0 1.61 2.14 0.2 8.0
Methyl ethyl ketone 0.80 1.63 0.6 2.3 0.79 1.67 0.6 2.5
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.35 1.87 0.2 0.9 0.33 1.88 0.2 0.9
Styrene 0.57 1.83 0.4 1.8 0.61 2.0 0.4 2.2
1,1,1-Trichloroethane 0.52 1.98 0.2 1.0 0.52 1.85 0.2 1.0
Tetrachloroethylene 0.27 2.21 0.2 1.3 0.27 2.25 0.2 1.6
Trichloroethylene 0.49 1.23 0.5 0.5 - - - -
Toluene 13.4 2.07 4.4 45.6 13.6 2.04 4.3 52.2
o-Xylene 1.68 2.38 0.3 7.9 1.68 2.47 0.3 6.6
p-Xylene 5.77 1.88 1.7 17.4 6.08 1.96 1.9 17.9
Total xylenes 7.28 2.16 1.4 25.4 7.81 2.07 2.1 24.6
NO2 18.7 2.07 2.5 49.1 36.3 2.36 5.2 141

-: Calculation was not performed because all measured values were under the detection limit.