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Volatile Halocarbons

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In the last 15 years concern has grown among health authorities and environmentalists over the presence and effect of chlorinated organic compounds on the environment and human health. Since the mid-1970s a particular group of halogenated hydrocarbons, or halocarbons, has become the center of concern in two very different situations. In each instance, however, such concern was expedited through advances in the sensitivity and specificity of analytical techniques and instrumentation. These two problems were (1) partial depletion of the ozone layer through atmospheric reactions of ozone with chlorofluorocarbons and (2) generation of trihalomethanes in drinking water or municipal wastewater through the disinfection process of chlorination. Developments in sample pretreatment and techniques of mass spectrometry or gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) have been critical in the identification, characterization, and formulation of solutions in each environmental issue.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 88003, USA

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Eiceman, G.A. (1985). Volatile Halocarbons. In: Karasek, F.W., Hutzinger, O., Safe, S. (eds) Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Sciences. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2361-7_14

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