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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2013 Oct 16;127:1–6. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.09.002

Table 2.

Air toxics measures (1990-2007)

Agent Mean (Standard
Deviation)
Inter-
Quartile
Range
Minimum 10th
Percentile
25th
Percentile
75th
Percentile
90th
Percentile
Maximum
Ortho-xylene (ppbV) 0.478 (0.316) 0.389 0.053 0.169 0.242 0.629 0.950 1.984
Toluene (ppbV) 2.778 (1.684) 2.124 0.337 1.063 1.481 3.604 5.563 10.830
Ethyl Benzene (ppbV) 0.287 (0.168) 0.228 0.100 0.149 0.278 0.436 0.604 1.300
1,3-Butadiene (ppbV) 0.367 (0.175) 0.158 0.022 0.092 0.155 0.384 0.548 0.910
Benzene (ppbV) 1.268 (0.830) 1.197 0.151 0.410 0.591 1.788 2.574 4.600
Meta/para-xylene (ppbV) 0.993 (0.548) 0.616 0.141 0.445 0.599 1.213 1.765 3.791
Styrene (ppbV) 0.159 (0.122) 0.139 0.050 0.053 0.068 0.207 0.350 1.378
Lead (ng/m3) 21.360 (17.488) 18.143 2.318 6.391 8.913 27.174 45.600 87.158
Perchloroethylene (ppbV) 0.186 (0.198) 0.177 0.009 0.035 0.057 0.234 0.487 1.845
Total PAHs (ng/m3) 1.476 (1.128) 1.090 0.164 0.486 0.723 1.814 2.808 12.885
Benzo(k)fluoranthene (ng/m3) 0.109 (0.102) 0.081 0.020 0.035 0.048 0.129 0.210 1.097
Benzo(a)pyrene (ng/m3) 0.214 (0.230) 0.168 0.020 0.053 0.084 0.251 0.445 2.449
Benzo(b)fluoranthene (ng/m3) 0.266 (0.241) 0.202 0.023 0.080 0.120 0.321 0.513 2.519
Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene (ng/m3) 0.318 (0.254) 0.245 0.024 0.097 0.153 0.397 0.607 3.189
Dibenz(a,h)anthracene (ng/m3) 0.036 (0.036) 0.016 0.020 0.020 0.021 0.038 0.058 0.691
Benzo(g,h,i)perylene (ng/m3) 0.559 (0.353) 0.446 0.047 0.191 0.296 0.741 1.058 2.799
Ortho-dichlorobenzene (ppbV) 0.108 (0.040) 0.079 0.050 0.059 0.071 0.150 0.150 0.276
Para-dichlorobenzene (ppbV) 0.144 (0.038) 0.038 0.100 0.100 0.115 0.152 0.188 0.519
Trichloroethylene (ppbV) 0.069 (0.108) 0.043 0.010 0.012 0.016 0.059 0.184 1.021
Carbon tetrachloride (ppbV) 0.105 (0.019) 0.034 0.072 0.084 0.090 0.124 0.132 0.145
Formaldehyde (ppbV) 2.725 (1.135) 1.277 0.744 1.479 1.936 3.212 4.174 8.111
Selenium (ng/m3) 1.533 (0.666) 0.716 0.750 1.000 1.045 1.762 2.421 4.737
Chloroform (ppbV) 0.034 (0.013) 0.016 0.010 0.019 0.025 0.041 0.052 0.126
Chromium (total) (ng/m3) 5.056 (2.478) 3.005 1.182 2.316 3.350 6.350 7.696 30.136
 Hexavalent chromium (ng/m3) 0.189 (0.101) 0.135 0.096 0.100 0.110 0.245 0.313 1.514
Acetaldehyde (ppbV) 1.371 (0.661) 0.864 0.286 0.645 0.863 1.727 2.435 4.082
Nickel (ng/m3) 4.851 (2.187) 3.193 1.077 2.304 3.182 6.381 7.726 18.571