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Record W4409899993 · doi:10.1039/d4ay02085e

Defluorination and derivatization of fluoropolymers for determination of total organic fluorine in polyolefin resins by gas chromatography

2025· article· en· W4409899993 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnalytical Methods · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
Canadian institutionsDow Chemical (Canada)
FundersDow Chemical Company
KeywordsPolyolefinDerivatizationChemistryGas chromatographyChromatographyFluorineOrganic chemistryHigh-performance liquid chromatography

Abstract

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= 7). The detection limit is 0.48 ppm w/w fluorine in tetrahydrofuran, equivalent to 9.6 ppm w/w of fluorine in a polymer sample with a sample concentration of 5 wt% polyethylene in tetrahydrofuran. Method validation was conducted using real polyethylene resins with varying fluorine levels, and the results were compared to those from two other analytical techniques: neutron activation analysis and combustion ion chromatography. While the results are generally close, some discrepancies were observed, likely due to sample heterogeneity and sample size differences. Spike recovery studies revealed good accuracy, with recoveries ranging from 90.5 to 97.8%. Cryogenic grinding of pellets into powder helps mitigate the sample homogeneity issue, providing more reproducible results. Given the widespread availability of gas chromatographs in most analytical laboratories, this method provides a practical, efficient, and cost-effective solution for determining extractable total organic fluorine in polyethylene resins and can be used for rapid screening and sample prioritization.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.459
Threshold uncertainty score0.385

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.350 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it