| Table B20. Analyses (ng/g [ppb] wet weight) of spiked replicates of summer flounder muscle for determination of the method detection limit (MDL) for pesticides | |||||||||||||||||
Hexa- chloro- benzene |
Lindane |
Hepta- chlor |
Aldrin |
Octa- chloro- styrene |
Hepta- |
Oxy- chlor- dane |
o,p'- DDE |
 -chlor- dane |
trans- nona- chlor |
p,p'- DDE |
Endrin |
p,p'- DDD |
o,p'- DDT |
p,p'- DDT |
Photo- mirex |
Mirex |
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| Replicate 1 | 6.27 | 2.59 | 6.18 | 7.13 | 7.17 | 6.01 | 3.82 | 11.5 | 8.82 | 8.33 | 16.1 | 10.6 | 6.24 | 6.92 | 5.68 | 8.07 | 7.71 |
| Replicate 2 | 6.27 | 2.08 | 5.98 | 7.02 | 6.87 | 7.12 | 4.72 | 10.7 | 8.14 | 7.81 | 15.4 | 9.35 | 5.96 | 6.16 | 4.61 | 7.85 | 7.79 |
| Replicate 3 | 6.31 | 2.55 | 6.24 | 7.68 | 6.52 | 7.06 | 4.72 | 10.1 | 7.85 | 7.55 | 14.1 | 9.08 | 6.06 | 6.31 | 5.56 | 7.57 | 7.51 |
| Replicate 4 | 5.29 | 2.30 | 5.43 | 6.04 | 6.67 | 6.9 | 4.50 | 10.3 | 7.93 | 7.79 | 14.5 | 9.22 | 5.99 | 6.30 | 5.70 | 7.78 | 7.52 |
| Replicate 5 | 6.32 | 2.60 | 6.39 | 7.81 | 6.64 | 7.28 | 4.79 | 10.2 | 7.77 | 7.52 | 14.0 | 9.06 | 6.06 | 5.77 | 5.31 | 7.56 | 7.83 |
| Replicate 6 | 5.66 | 1.80 | 5.70 | 6.84 | 6.23 | 6.82 | 4.18 | 10.1 | 7.48 | 7.29 | 14.7 | 8.68 | 4.76 | 5.20 | 4.27 | 7.56 | 7.90 |
| Replicate 7 | 6.41 | 1.67 | 5.55 | 8.18 | 6.08 | 4.86 | 3.15 | 9.92 | 7.78 | 8.14 | 15.4 | 7.16 | 4.93 | 4.93 | 3.60 | 9.06 | 9.21 |
| Mean | 6.08 | 2.23 | 5.92 | 7.24 | 6.60 | 6.58 | 4.27 | 10.4 | 7.97 | 7.78 | 14.9 | 9.03 | 5.71 | 5.94 | 4.96 | 7.92 | 7.92 |
| Std. dev. | 0.43 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.71 | 0.37 | 0.87 | 0.60 | 0.55 | 0.42 | 0.36 | 0.77 | 1.03 | 0.60 | 0.69 | 0.82 | 0.54 | 0.59 |
| RSD (%) | 7.1 | 17 | 6.2 | 9.9 | 5.6 | 13 | 14 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 6.8 | 7.4 |
| MDLa | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 |
aMDL t, where = standard deviation and t =Student's "t" value of 3.143 with n-1 degrees of freedom and = 0.01 (one tailed). |
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