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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2016 Apr 22;50(9):4587–4605. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05647

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Detection limits for analytical techniques in various media under optimal conditions and modeled environmental concentrations (184, 285, 386, 470, 519); modeled environmental concentrations are not available for biological matrices. The detection limits for individual techniques span a range of one order of magnitude (e.g., 1 mg/L to 10 mg/L)

Abbreviations: Asymmetric flow field flow fractionation with multi-angle light scattering (aF4-MALS), analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC), chemothermal oxidation at 375 °C (CTO-375), near infrared fluorescence (NIRF), single particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (spICP-MS), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), thermal gravimetric analysis-mass spectrometry (TGA-MS), total organic carbon (TOC), thermal optical transmittance (TOT).