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Objective@#To establish a method for determination of acetone, dichloromethane, hexane, 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane, 1, 2-dichloroethane, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene etc organic compounds in urine by headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) . @*Methods@#Headspace gases of urine samples were injected into GC and determined by mass. @*Results@#Determination of urine components were in a good linear range in their concentration range of this method. The correlation coefficients were between 0.996 and 1.000 with the detection limits between 0.1 μg/L and 4.5 μg/L, the precisions were between 1.3% and 4.6%, the recovery rates were between 86.2% and 97.4%. @*Conclusion@#This method has the advantages of low detection limits, high accuracy, high precision and simple pretreatment, which is suitable for the determination of the content of various volatile organic compounds in urine.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To develop a solvent desorption gas chromatographic method for determination of n-pentanol in the workplace air.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>n-Pentanol in the workplace air was collected with activated carbon tubes, desorbed with 2% 2-propanol in carbon disulfide, separated with a nitroterephthalic acid-modified FFAP capillary column, and detected with flame ionization detector.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The limit of detection was 0.2 mg/L; the lower limit of quantification was 0.6 mg/L; the linear range was 0.6-4072.0 mg/L. The minimum detectable mass concentration was 0.2 mg/m3 for 1.5 L of air sample. This method was highly repeatable. The relative standard deviations were 2.3%-5.4%. The average desorption efficiencies were 86.9%-94.2%. The absorption efficiencies were 100%. The breakthrough volume was above 8.0 mg in 100-mg activated carbon. The samples in activated carbon tubes could be stored for at least 14 days at room temperature.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The method is feasible for determination of n-pentanol in the workplace air.</p>