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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2015 Feb 26;119(10):4155–4164. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b00808

Table 1.

Oxygen Solubility Enhanced by Fluorinated Materials in Solutiona

Solid ppm mM
Native silica 14.9±0.4 0.47±0.02
Fluorinated silica 6 16.7±0.4 0.522±0.01
Native PVA 14.9±0.03 0.466±0.001
Teflon/PVA 8 17.9±0.07 0.559±0.003
a

Pyrex test tubes contained 5.0 mL of O2–saturated n-butanol with 0.58 g of solid at 25 °C. A pO2 electrode was used to measure the O2 solubility. After removing the solids from solution, the O2 solubility returns to 14.9 ppm (0.466 mM).