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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Analyst. 2013 Mar 7;138(5):1405–1418. doi: 10.1039/c2an36193k

Table 4.

Contaminants emitted by Tedlar bags [ppb]. Compounds are ordered with respect to the increasing retention time. ʺ—ʺ denotes that the VOC was not detected, whereas ʺ<LOQʺ stands for VOC level below LOQ

New bag sampling time [h]
Preconditioned bag sampling time [h]
VOC CAS 0 6 12 24 0 6 24 VOC emission × 10−12 [g × h−1 × cm−2]
Carbonyl sulfide (COS) 463-58-1 Not quantified
Acetonitrile 75-05-8 <LOQ 14.2 17.3 18.9 4.23
Carbon disulfide (CS2) 75-15-0 Not quantified
n-Hexane 110-54-3 0.5 0.15
Acetamide, N,N-dimethyl- 127-19-5 Not quantified
2-Propyl acetate, 1-methoxy- 108-65-6 Not quantified
Heptane, 2,4-dimethyl- 2213-23-2 0.5 0.8 1.3 0.3 0.4 0.5
Octane, 4-methyl- 2216-34-4 <LOQ 0.8 1.0 1.5 <LOQ <LOQ 0.82
Phenol 108-95-2 Not quantified