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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 84, Issue 4, Pages 446-451Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.03.045
Keywords
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Partition coefficient; Dry particle and wet deposition; Washout ratio; Pearl River Delta
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [40821003, 40928003]
- K.C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong, China
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Concentrations of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolites (designated as DDTs, the sum of o,p'- and p,p'-DDT, o,p'- and p,p'-DDE, and o,p'- and p,p'-DDD) in air and precipitation from the Pearl River Delta (PRD) of China were determined. Total concentrations of DDTs in air (gas + particle) and precipitation (dissolved + particle) were 170 +/- 120 pg m(-3) and 940 +/- 180 pg L-1 for Dongguan (rural) and 240 +/- 120 pg m(-3) and 790 +/- 140 pg L-1 for Shunde (rural), respectively, while they were 1550 +/- 640 pg L-1 in precipitation from Guangzhou (urban). Log-transformed partition coefficients between air and particulate organic matter (log K'(oa)) of p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD, o,p'-DDT, o,p'-DDE, and o,p'-DDD were 9.64 +/- 0.58, 10.07 +/- 0.56, 9.90 +/- 0.76, 10.06 +/- 0.66, 10.02 +/- 0.72, and 10.13 +/- 0.57, respectively: while those between water and particulate organic matter (log K'(om)) were 6.58 +/- 0.66, 6.36 +/- 0.53, 6.01 +/- 0.62, 6.41 +/- 0.42, 5.98 +/- 0.76, and 5.95 +/- 0.66, respectively. Total washout ratios by bulk rainfalls ranged from 4600 for o,p'-DDT to 54,000 for p,p'-DDT. Estimated average dry particle and wet depositional intensities in the PRD were 2.1 x 10(-6) and 1.6 x 10(-6) g m(-2) y(-1). (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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