Abstract
To get an idea about the pollution of the environment in Jordan with technical contaminants, 45 individual PCB components in soil samples from the Jordan Valley were analysed. After a soxhlet extraction and column clean‐up, the polychlorinated biphenyl congeners were identified and determined using GC‐MS techniques. All samples show a total PCB concentration between 2.4 and 15 μg/kg (dry weight). The concentration of the hexachlorobiphenyl isomers were between 24 and 41%. The concentration of the pentachlorbiphenyl isomers were between 11 and 34%. In general, the PCB soil contamination in Jordan is not significantly different from that of some industrialized countries.
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