Solid sorbent sampler for white phosphorus in air.

H K Dillon; W J Barrett; P M Eller

doi:10.1080/0002889778507823

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Solid sorbent sampler for white phosphorus in air.

H K Dillon·W J Barrett·P M Eller

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A solid sorbent sampling tube packed with Tenax-GC is used with a personal sampling pump to collect samples of white (yellow) phosphorus vapor from air. The phosphorus is leached from the exposed sorbent into xylene and quantitated by gas chromatographic analysis. The capacity of the sorbents is in the range 10 to 20 microgramP4per100 mg of sorbent, which allows for up to 4 hrs of sampling at the OSHA Standard, 0.1 mg/m3. No interferences from red phosphorus, phosphine, water vapor, or other common gases are significant. The effects on the method of variations in temperature, pressure, humidity, sample storage and shipping conditions, and chromatographic parameters were determined.

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H K Dillon, W J Barrett, P M Eller. 1978. Solid sorbent sampler for white phosphorus in air.. https://doi.org/10.1080/0002889778507823

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