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This study of the petroleum hydrocarbons in coastal seawater, using dichloromethane extraction with O-terphenyl and n-C20 as internal standards, and gas chromatography with silica-capillary-column showed that the recovery of petroleum hydrocarbons reaches 87.8% and that the lowest detection limit is 0.96 μg. This method is reproducible, highly accurate, and applicable for determining the petroleum hydrocarbons in coastal seawater.
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Zi-qiang, H., Jin-shu, Z. Capillary gas chromatographic analyses of the petroleum hydrocarbons in coastal seawater. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 13, 177–182 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846824
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846824