Airborne suspended particulate matter is an important marker of air quality. The
term'particulates' includes organic and inorganic matter, nitrogen compounds, sulphur …

The 16 EPA PAHs have played an exceptionally large role above all in environmental and
analytical sciences in the last 40 years, but now there are good reasons to question their …

For the past 25 years the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has
developed certified reference materials (CRMs), known as standard reference materials …

The interaction of mineral dust particles from the Sahara with semivolatile organic
compounds over an urban region in Israel's coastal plain was studied. Dust samples were …

Individual organic compounds can be used as tracers for primary sources of ambient
particulate matter (PM) in chemical mass balance receptor models. Previous work has …

In this work, a direct thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
(TD/GC/MS) method is implemented to determine the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon …

An investigation was performed to study the emissions of state of the art small-scale
residential heating appliances. The different combustion systems were compared at optimal …

n-Alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were identified in particle-sized
aerosols of the urban and rural atmospheres of Guangzhou, China. Most of the organic …

Relatively little is known about the mutagenicity of C24H14 PAH, a diverse group of five-and
six-ring PAH, some of which are present at trace levels in the environment. To better …

Individual organic compounds found in particulate emissions from vehicles have proven
useful in source apportionment of ambient particulate matter. Species of interest include the …