Table 2.
The range of individual semivolatile organic compound (SVOC) concentration observations and test-based sum of SVOC concentrations (N = 15) by compound class. Note that the anhydrosugar class contains levoglucosan only.
| Compound Class | Individual SVOC concs. |
ΣSVOC Class |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Min | Max | Min | Max | Median | |
| (μg/g OC) | ||||||
| aliphatic diacid | 81 | 3 | 3638 | 1106 | 12,849 | 2056 |
| alkanoic acid | 160 | 41 | 61,161 | 1494 | 163,709 | 19,878 |
| anhydrosugar | 15 | 12,505 | 320,300 | - | - | 95405 |
| aromatic acid | 103 | 0.291 | 3417 | 508 | 4360 | 1197 |
| b-alkane | 30 | 2 | 461 | 9 | 461 | 58 |
| fatty acid | 48 | 10 | 2019 | 13 | 4238 | 1906 |
| methoxy-phenol | 84 | 52 | 38,282 | 1998 | 74,902 | 26,056 |
| n-alkane | 296 | 3 | 2962 | 294 | 13,044 | 4231 |
| PAH | 332 | 0.4 | 16,590 | 1036 | 79,021 | 7589 |
| resin acid | 38 | 13 | 4303 | 150 | 5783 | 1526 |