SEPARATION AND ENRICHMENT OF TRACES OF EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR BY-PRODUCTS FROM WATER BY MULTIPLE MICRO LIQUID EXTRACTION FOR THEIR DETERMINATION BY CAPILLARY GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY
T. Welsch et H. Block, SEPARATION AND ENRICHMENT OF TRACES OF EXPLOSIVES AND THEIR BY-PRODUCTS FROM WATER BY MULTIPLE MICRO LIQUID EXTRACTION FOR THEIR DETERMINATION BY CAPILLARY GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY, Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, 357(7), 1997, pp. 904-908
A fast sample preparation method for the trace determination of some e
xploxives, by-products and degradation compounds in water by capillary
gas chromatography is described. It is based on multiple extractions
of the water sample with sub-milliliter amounts of solvent and subsequ
ent concentration of the unified extracts by reducing its volume to a
few microliters according to Dunges. The most suitable solvent was met
hyl-tert.-butylether. With electron caption detection and an aqueous s
ample volume of 25 to 100 ml, the determination level is in the pg/ml
range.