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Published in final edited form as: Environ Toxicol Chem. 2013 Jul 19;32(10):2190–2196. doi: 10.1002/etc.2248

Table 2.

Experimentally derived polyethylene-water partition coefficients (log K_PE; L/kg) measured for polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) obtained from the literature. For values from the present study, see Table 1.

PBDE congener	Bao et al. [20]	Sacks and Lohmann [29] (apparent)^a	Sacks and Lohmann [29] (accounting for third phase)^a
17	5.43
47	6.25	5.01	7.18
71	6.02
99	6.88	5.02	7.79
100	6.82	5.02	8.05
183	7.39	5.07	9.11
209	5.61

Converted to L/kg using ρ_PE = 0.92 g/mL