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|Articles|February 1, 2000

LCGC North America

  • February 2000
  • Volume 18
  • Issue 2
  • Pages: 154–160

Total Polychlorinated Biphenyl Quantification by Rapid Dechlorination Under Mild Conditions

The authors describe a method of reductive chlorination that enables the determination of total PCB content by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection.


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Figure 2. Split injection used to measure triplicate test of MTBE, hexane, o-xylene, and 1-methylnaphthalene comparing different solvents (methanol, methylene chloride) and column insertion distances starting with 0.5 mm, 5.0 mm, 10.0 mm, 15 mm, and 20.0 mm. Methanol had the best performance at the 5.0 mm insertion distance and methylene chloride looked slightly better at the 0.5 mm. We would still recommend not going below the 5.0 mm manufacturer recommended insertion distance.
Revisiting insertion distance for methanol and methylene chloride in GC analysis and confirming that insertion depth strongly affects response and reproducibility.