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Table 6.2 Continued
Detection limit (mg kg
−1
unless otherwise stated)
With ether capture detector
Chlorophenols
0.001
With nitrogen-phosphorus
Organophosphorus insecticides
0.0001–0.0002
Specific detector
With photometric detector
Trialkyl and triaryl phosphates
With mass spectrometric
Linear alkyl benzene sulphonates
0.5
detector
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons
10
Polychlorobiphenyls
10
Polychloro-dibenzo p-dioxins
Purge and trap gas
Chloroform
chromatography
Chlorobenzenes
High-Performance liquid
Polycyclicaromaticyclic hydrocarbons
0.00001–0.0001
chromatography
Ion-pair chromatography
Organosulphur compounds including:
2 p mole
With electronochemical
Cysteine
absolute
detector
Monothioglycerol
Glutathion
Mercaptopyruvic and
3-mercaptopropanoic acid
2-mercaptoproanoic acid
Supercritical fluid
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons
chromatography
Polychlorobiphenyls
Atrazine
Cyanazine
Desethylatrazine
Deisipropylatrazine
metochlor
Dichlorvos
Diazinon
Ronnel
Parathion ethyl
Methiadathion
Tetrachlorovinphos
Endrin
Endrin aldehyde
p,p’-DDT
Mirex
Dechlorobiphenyl
Mass spectrometry electron
Polychlorobiphenyls
capture negative ion
chemical ionisation mass
spectrometry
Liquid chromatographyPhenoxy acetic acid and
particle beam mass
ester herbicides
spectrometry
Flame atomic absorption
Fulvic acid
spectrometry
Fulvic acids (metal complexes)
Spectrometry
Polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons
Ultraviolet spectroscopy
Polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons
Spectrophotometric methods
Herbicides
Photoacoustic luminescence
Polychlorobiphenyls
analysis
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