Milk as an Eluant of Polycylic Aromatic Hydrocarbons added to Wax

Abstract

PROTEINS in aqueous solution have been demonstrated to elute polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from soot particles. The liberated hydrocarbons, although hydrophobic, are retained in solution by the proteins¹. We wished to determine whether milk, a protein solution, would elute incorporated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from paraffin waxes despite the hydrophobic nature of the hydrocarbons.