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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 21.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2021 Dec 13;93(51):16977–16980. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04268

Table 2.

Water content (with combined standard uncertainty) as a function of storage time at 100 % relative humidity (RH). Nominally negative water concentrations can be observed due to the blank subtraction procedure, but negative results were always less than the measurement uncertainty.

Compound name Days at
100%
RH
water (mg/kg)
benzoic acid * 0 7 ± 22
2 12 ± 24
7 33 ± 17
35 29 ± 9
77 16 ± 6
dimethyl sulfone 0 824 ± 28
2 14692 ± 3073
7 74531 ± 1351
35 249620 ± 20347
77 NA
1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene 0 518 ± 27
2 498 ± 23
7 572 ± 16
35 660 ± 24
77 698 ± 13
1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene 0 106 ± 42
2 149 ± 35
7 116 ± 17
35 135 ± 22
77 111 ± 35
acetanilide (99 % purity) 0 1 ± 9
8 213 ± 9
31 383 ± 8
64 494 ± 12
476 772 ± 9
acetanilide (sublimed, 99.9 % purity) 0 −1 ± 9
8 0 ± 4
31 0 ± 6
64 2 ± 2
476 4 ± 8
1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene 0 358 ± 13
8 415 ± 6
31 481 ± 8
64 557 ± 4
476 1028 ± 12
dimethyl terephthalate 0 −35 ± 76
8 −2 ± 48
31 81 ± 55
64 28 ± 95
476 81 ± 84
*

NIST Standard Reference Material 39j

Same container of material used for duplicate tests

Liquid and solid phases present; no measurement made