Soils chloroaliphatic hydrocarbons

This technique has been applied to the determination of chlorinated insecticides, carbamate insecticides and substituted urea type herbicides in soil and chloroaliphatic hydrocarbons in non-saline sediments. Separation is usually achieved on thin layers of silica gel or alumina. 

Despite the advances made in high-performance liquid chromatography in recent years, there are still occasionally applications in which conventional column chromatography is employed. These methods lack the sensitivity, resolution and automation of HPLC. They include the determination of urea herbicides in soil, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, chloroaliphatic compounds and humic and fulvic acids in non-saline sediments. The technique has also been applied in sludge analysis, e.g. aliphatic hydrocarbons and carboxylic acids. 

For more volatile compounds in soils, such as aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, chloroaliphatic hydrocarbons, haloaromatic hydrocarbons, acetonitrile, acrylonitrile and mixtures of organic compounds a combination of gas chromatography with purge and trap analysis is extremely useful. Pyrolysis gas chromatography has also found several applications, heteroaromatic hydrocarbons, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, polymers and haloaromatic compounds and this technique has been coupled with mass spectrometry, (aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and mixtures of organic compounds). 

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