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. 2017 Feb 28;12(2):e0173158. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173158

Table 1. Chemical mass constituents in size-segregated ambient PM collected between the 2012 winter and 2013 summer seasons.

PM0.1 PM1 PM2.5 PM10
Collected mass (mg) 1.87 19.48 26.17 40.88
Ionic components (μg/mg)
Na+ 3.44 3.84 13.72 31.73
K+ 6.92 13.19 12.67 10.78
Mg2+ 1.33 0.59 2.08 4.92
Ca2+ 7.87 1.49 3.34 14.68
Cl- 5.12 2.78 9.77 18.90
NH4+ 11.31 125.34 119.93 75.76
NO3- 17.46 49.37 87.91 96.19
PO43- 7.47 1.37 1.68 1.45
SO42- 45.28 349.90 318.69 240.19
Carbon species
OC (μg/mg) 314.02 120.51 166.74 126.14
EC (μg/mg) 47.53 53.05 46.31 41.60
Endotoxin (EU/ml) 62.44 53.66 55.05 122.27