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METHOD OPTIMISATION<br />

AHMI). For less volatile analytes such <strong>as</strong> BDE153 <strong>and</strong> BDE154 peak abundances were rather<br />

low. An oven temperature <strong>of</strong> 70 °C <strong>and</strong> an inlet temperature 60 °C lead to highest<br />

abundances. At different final inlet temperatures peak heights did not vary significantly<br />

(figure 1b). There is no significant change in peak abundance <strong>of</strong> musk fragrances at heating<br />

rates. PBDEs are incre<strong>as</strong>ed with higher heating rates (figure 1c). For example, best responses<br />

for BDE99 <strong>and</strong> BDE100 were achieved for temperatures equal to 300 °C min -1 or even higher<br />

<strong>as</strong> demonstrated in figure 2.<br />

Figure 1: Differences <strong>of</strong> peak abundance obtained with varying oven (a), inlet temperatures (b)<br />

<strong>and</strong> heating rates (c) according to experiments 3A-C (section 3.2.4).<br />

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c a<br />

b<br />

c

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