ABSTRACT
Gas chromatography has been applied mainly to the determination of organic and organometallic compounds with limited applications to the determination of anions and cations.
15.1 Organic compounds
I S.I. I Non saline waters
15.1.1.1 A l i p h a t i c h y d r o c a r b o n s , in land oil po l lu t ion inc idents
A general classification of oil eg crude oil, petroleum, gas oil, is often satisfactorily achieved by gas chromatographic techniques possibly coupled with mass spectrometry or infrared spectroscopy applied to a sample of the oil pollutant. The true identification invariably requires samples from potential sources for comparison with the pollutant.
