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7. Glossary
Pollutant; polluant
Refers to a physical, chemical or biological agent that alters the qualities of an environmental medium (liquid, solid or gaseous) and causes discomfort or nuisance to humans, animals, plants or other organisms. It can be a man-made substance (or mixture of substances) dispersed in the environment, or any change in the concentration and/or distribution of a natural substance in the environment.
Chromatographie en phase gazeuse (CPG); gas chromatography (CG)
Technique for separating a mixture of volatile molecules or analytes. The mixture to be analyzed is vaporized and injected into a column containing a liquid or solid substance, which forms the stationary phase. Transport is carried out by an inert gas, called carrier gas, which forms the mobile phase. The separation of analytes is based on...
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- (1) - Observatoire de la qualite de l'air intérieur - http://www.oqai.fr
- (2) - SQUINAZI (F.) - Les polluants physicochimiques de l'air intérieur : sources et impacts sanitaires....
Standards and norms
- AFNOR. Indoor air, ambient air and workplace air – Sampling and analysis of volatile organic compounds by thermal adsorption/desorption tube/capillary gas chromatography. Part 2: Diffusion sampling - NF EN ISO 16017-2 - 2003
- AFNOR. Indoor air – Part 4: Formaldehyde determination – Diffuse sampling method - NF ISO 16000-4 - 2012
- AFNOR. Inside air – Part 18: Mould detection and enumeration – Impaction sampling...
Regulations
Loi n° 2010-788 du 12 juillet 2010 portant engagement national pour l'Environnement (Grenelle 2). NOR : DEVX0822225L (consolidated version as of October 27, 2021)
Décret n° 2011-321 du 23 mars 2011 relatif à l'étiquetage des produits de construction ou de revêtement de mur ou de sol et des peintures et vernis sur leurs émissions de polluants volatils. JORF n° 0071 of March 25, 2011. NOR : DEVL1101903D...
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