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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Environ (1994). 2020 Mar 5;226:117379. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117379

Table 2:

PAH Diagnostic Ratios

Ratio Kitchen Personal Potential Sources/Characteristics References
BaA/(BaA+CHR) 0.30 0.27 0.24–0.54: Natural gas combustion (Galarneau 2008)47
IcdP/(IcdP+BghiP) 0.92 0.85 >0.50: Grass, wood, and coal combustion (Ravindra et al. 2008, Yunker et al. 2002)48,49
FLA/(FLA+Pyr) 0.58 0.54 >0.50: Grass, wood, and coal combustion (Contini et al. 2011, Yunker et al. 2002)48,50
Fl/(FL+PYR) 0.21 0.21 <0.50: Petrol emissions (Ravindra et al. 2008)49
Ant/(Ant+PHE) 0.72 0.19 >0.10: Pyrogenic (Pies et al. 2008)51
Ret/(Ret+CHR) 0.01 0 Wood burning ~1 (Tobiszewski and Namiesnik 2012)46
BaP/BghiP 1.70 0.94 >0.90: Coal (Wu et al. 2007)52