Nicholas J. Herkert and colleagues at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, IIHR - Hydroscience and Engineering and The University of Iowa collected air samples in 16 homes in the Iowa City area using passive air samplers and then analyzed the air for PCB concentration by separating and analyzing them using a very
powerful analytical method called GC - MS / MS.
This powerful analytical method using mass spectrometric detection is called CI - APi - TOF (chemical ionization — atmospheric pressure interface time - of - flight mass spectrometry).
To answer these questions, the authors here used a suite of
powerful analytical methods and climate data to analyze the specific environments of genotyped giraffes.