Identification of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and DDT in Mixtures by Mass Spectrometry

@article{Hutzinger1970IdentificationOP,
  title={Identification of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and DDT in Mixtures by Mass Spectrometry},
  author={Otto. Hutzinger and William David Jamieson and Vladimir Zitko},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1970},
  volume={226},
  pages={664-664},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4213640}
}
PCBs interfere with the analysis for chlorinated pesticides because some of the PCB components from the technical mixture have identical retention times and respond to the electron capture detector.
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