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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Aerosol Sci Technol. 2016 Oct 20;51(1):108–115. doi: 10.1080/02786826.2016.1245406

Table 1. Summary of results for metals in substrate holders analyzed by FP-XRF (mean ± standard deviation of three measurements, N.D.: not detected, N: number of measurements).

Metal aAl alloy holder, μg/cm2 bPEEK holder, μg/cm2

w/o PC substrate
(N = 3)
w/ PC substrate
(N = 9)
w/o PC substrate
(N = 3)
w/ PC substrate
(N = 9)
Fe 24.8 ± 0.5 28.2 ± 6.9 N.D. N.D.
Cr 4.6 ± 0.1 4.6 ± 0.2 3.2 ± 0.1 3.2 ± 0.1
Mn 6.2 ± 0.5 5.7 ± 0.9 N.D. N.D.
Cu 57.1 ± 0.6 56.5 ± 1.2 1.6 ± 0.1 1.7 ± 0.1
Zn 14.6 ± 0.1 15.3 ± 1.3 N.D. N.D.
Ni 73.5 ± 19.7 71.7 ± 14.2 N.D. N.D.
Ti 1.3 ± 0.0 1.3 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1 0.6 ± 0.1
Pb 2.0 ± 0.1 3.1 ± 2.3 N.D. N.D.
a

Al alloy holder supplied by the company,

b

custom made holder, PC: polycarbonate