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Validated Test Method 8260C: Volatile Organic Compounds by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)

The following document describes the method to determine volatile organic compounds in a variety of solid waste matrices.

Please note that there is a more recent version of this method, Method 8260D (2018), that has been incorporated into the SW-846 compendium.

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Validated Method 8260C: Volatile Organic Compounds by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) (PDF)(92 pp, 339 K, 2006)