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Multispectral techniques (gas chromatography combined with low and high resolution electron-impact mass spectrometry, low and high resolution chemical ionization mass spectrometry, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy) were used to identify 13 alkyl and chloroalkyl phosphates in a water sample taken from the effluent of a plant that manufactures fire-retardant chemicals. Of the 13 phosphates identified, only 4 were located in hbrary mass spectral data bases; thus, techniques other than conventional low resolution electron-impact mass spectrometry with data base matching were required. Several of the Identified phosphates are commonly used ftre retardants; however, three exhibited chemical structures different from those of the commercially manufactured fire retardants and the reactants used in their synthesis.
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Thruston, A.D., Richardson, S.D., McGuire, J.M. et al. Multispectral Identiftcation of Alkyl and Chloroalkyl Phosphates from an Industrial Effluent. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2, 419–426 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(91)85008-T
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