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. 1976 Oct 13;125(2):399-407.
doi: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)83371-3.

The use of tenax for the extraction of pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls from water. II. Tests with artificially polluted and natural waters

V Leoni, G Puccetti, R J Colombo, A M D'Ovidio

The use of tenax for the extraction of pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls from water. II. Tests with artificially polluted and natural waters

V Leoni et al. J Chromatogr. .

Abstract

The application of Tenax to the extraction of organic micro-pollutants such as pesticides and polychlorobiphenyls from waters has been studied, and it has been observed that also in the presence of other pollutants (oil, surface-active substances, etc.) the results obtained with an absorption column of Tenax-Celite are equivalent to those obtained with the continuous liquid-liquid extraction technique. For natural waters that contain solids in suspension that adsorb pesticides, it may be necessary to filter the water before extraction with Tenax and then to extract the suspended solids separately. Analyses of river and estuarine sea waters, filtered before extraction, showed the effectiveness of Tenax, and the extracts obtained for the pesticides analysis prove to be much less contaminated by interfering substances than the corresponding extracts obtained by the liquid-liquid technique.

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