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Distribution Patterns of Brominated, Chlorinated, and Phosphorus Flame Retardants with Particle Size in Indoor and Outdoor Dust and Implications for Human Exposure Zhiguo Cao,† Fuchao Xu,‡ Adrian Covaci,‡ Min Wu,† Haizhu Wang,† Gang Yu,*,† Bin Wang,† Shubo Deng,† Jun Huang,† and Xiaoyan Wang§ †
POPs Research Center, School of Environment, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China ‡ Toxicological Centre, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium § Beijing Environmental Sanitation Engineering Research Institute, Beijing 100028, People’s Republic of China S Supporting Information *
ABSTRACT: Dust samples were collected in Beijing, China, from four different indoor microenvironments (office, hotel, kindergarten, and student dormitory) and one outdoor (road dust) microenvironment. These five composite samples were fractionated into 13 sequential size fractions and an individual fraction of
