Indoor air pollutants from household-product sources: Project report

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5824974

Sack, T M; Steele, D H

A Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GS/MS) data base obtained during the analysis of 1,159 household products for six common chlorocarbon solvents has been reanalyzed for the presence and concentration of 25 additional chemicals. Using computerized GS/MS software, 1,043 of the original GC/MS data files were recovered and analyzed for the presence of the additional chemicals. Of the 25 additional chemicals, those found most frequently in the household products include acetone (315 products), 2-butanone (200 products), methylcyclohexane (150 products), toluene (488 products), ethylbenzene (157 products), m-xylene (101 products), and o.p-xylene (93 products). A total of 63.6% of the products analyzed in the study contained one or more of the 25 additional analytes at concentrations greater than or equal to 0.1% by weight. The quantitative information presented in the report is also available on diskette in a spreadsheet format.

• Research Organization: Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5824974
• Report Number(s): PB-92-136837/XAB; CNN: EPA-68-02-4252
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also PB88-100060 and PB88-132899. Sponsored by Environmental Monitoring Systems Lab., Las Vegas, NV
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
HOUSEHOLDS
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
SOLVENTS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
ACETONE
BENZENE
CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY
LUBRICANTS
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
PAINTS
POLLUTION SOURCES
TOLUENE
XYLENES
AIR POLLUTION
ALKYLATED AROMATICS
AROMATICS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
COATINGS
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
KETONES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPECTROSCOPY
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Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)