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. 2016 Mar 7;6:22674. doi: 10.1038/srep22674

Table 3. Source profiles of PFASs obtained from the PCA-MLR and PMF models.

Compound PCA factor loadings
PMF source composition (ng/g dw)
Factor 1 Factor 2 Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
PFBA −0.015 0.719 0.0034 0.0000 0.0509
PFPeA 0.027 0.900 0.0000 0.0034 0.0316
PFHxA 0.366 0.766 0.0000 0.0045 0.0317
PFHpA 0.730 0.461 0.0058 0.0034 0.0122
PFOA 0.823 0.202 0.0756 0.0454 0.0471
PFNA 0.698 0.247 0.0570 0.0022 0.0093
PFDA 0.862 0.154 0.0468 0.0290 0.0038
PFUnDA 0.900 0.034 0.1124 0.0197 0.0067
PFDoDA 0.951 0.068 0.0140 0.0116 0.0002
PFTrDA 0.903 0.100 0.0332 0.0097 0.0021
PFTeDA 0.834 0.015 0.0033 0.0034 0.0000
PFOS 0.674 0.028 0.0224 0.1602 0.0072
Possible source Food-packaging, textile, electroplating, firefighting and semiconductor industry Precious metals and coating industry Food-packaging industry Textile, electroplating, firefighting and semiconductor industry Precious metals and coating industry
Contribution (%) 77.7 22.3 43.2 33.6 23.2