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ESTERS 1 Formulas: Table 1

MW: Table 1

METHOD: 1450, Issue 3

CAS: Table 1

RTECS: Table 1

EVALUATION: FULL

PROPERTIES:

OSHA : Table 1 NIOSH: Table 1 ACGIH: Table 1

COMPOUNDS:

1450

n-amyl acetate 2-ethoxyethyl acetate n-propyl acetate

1-butyl acetate methyl isoamyl acetate sec-butyl acetate

Issue 1: 15 February 1984 Issue 3: 15 March 2003

Table 1

isobutyl acetate n-butyl acetate isoamyl acetate

ethyl acrylate

SYNONYMS: See Table 1

SAMPLING SAMPLER:

SOLID SORBENT TUBE (coconut shell charcoal, 100 mg/50 mg)

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE:

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY, FID

ANALYTE:

Compounds referenced above

DESORPTION:

1 mL CS2 , 30 min

INJECTION VOLUME:

1 µL

FLOW RATE: 0.01 to 0.2 L/min VOL-MIN: -MAX:

1 L @ OSHA PEL 10 L

SHIPMENT:

Refrigerated

SAMPLE STABILITY:

See EVALUATION OF METHOD

BLANKS:

2 to 10 field blanks per set

TEMPERATURE -INJECTION: -DETECTOR: -COLUMN:

200 - 225 °C 250 - 300 °C 50 °C for 2 minutes, then up to 110 °C at a rate of 5 °C per minute, holding at 110 °C for 3 minutes.

ACCURACY

CARRIER GAS:

4 mL/min, Helium

RANGE STUDIED:

0.5 to 2x OSHA PEL[1]

COLUMN:

ACCURACY:

See EVALUATION OF METHOD

Capillary, fused silica, 30m x 0.32mm ID; 0.5 µm film DB-Wax or equivalent.

BIAS:

See EVALUATION OF METHOD

CALIBRATION:

Solutions of compounds in CS2

RANGE:

See EVALUATION OF METHOD and Table 1.

LOD:

See EVALUATION OF METHOD

PRECISION ( Ö r ):

See EVALUATION OF METHOD [1]

OVERALL PRECISION ( Ö r T ):

See EVALUATION OF METHOD

APPLICABILITY: This method can be used for simultaneous analysis of all analytes. High humidity greatly reduces sampler capacity and breakthrough volume.

INTERFERENCES: None identified.

OTHER METHODS: This method, NMAM 1450, Issue 3 is an updated analytical procedure [5]. This method originally combined and replaced the NMAM 2nd edition Methods S31, S32, S35, S37, S41, S44 through S48, and S51 [3]. Estimated LOD for each analyte is approximately 10 times lower than that of the previous methods.

NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM), Fourth Edition