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. 2013 Jun 13;10(6):2441–2467. doi: 10.3390/ijerph10062441

Table 3.

Default physiochemical constants for BTEXN and TPH carbon ranges.

Chemical/Carbon Range 1 Molecular Weight Vapor Pressure (atms) Solubility in Water (mg/Lf) Henry’s Constant (unitless) Partition Coeff, koc (cm3/g) Diffusion Coefficient (cm2/s)
air water
Benzene 78 0.1 1,790 0.23 146 0.09 1 × 105
Ethylbenzene 106 0.01 169 0.32 446 0.068 8.5 × 106
Toluene 92 0.04 526 0.27 234 0.078 9.2 × 106
Xylenes 106 0.01 161 0.29 375 0.068 8.4 × 106
Naphthalene 128 1.0 × 104 30 0.018 1,540 0.06 8.4 × 106
C5-C8 Aliphatics 93 0.1 11 54 2,265 0.08 1 × 105
C9-C12 Aliphatics 149 8.7 × 104 0.07 65 150,000 0.07 1 × 105
C13-C18 Aliphatics 170 1.4 × 104 3.5 × 104 69 680,000 0.07 5.0 × 106
C19-C36 Aliphatics 280 1.1 × 106 1.5 × 106 110 4.0 × 108
C9-C10 Aromatics 120 2.9 × 103 51 0.33 1,778 0.07 1 × 105
C11-C22 Aromatics 150 3.2 × 105 5.8 0.03 5,000 0.06 1 × 105

1 Constants for BTEXN from USEPA RSL guidance [22]; vapor pressures from TOXNET [27]; Carbon range values from Massachusetts DEP [2] except C13-C18 Aliphatics (based on EC > 12–16) and C19-C36 Aliphatics (based on EC > 16–35 aliphatics) [20].