7. Glossary

Composés Organiques Volatils (COV); Volatile organic compound

Organic compounds with a saturation vapour pressure greater than 10 Pa at 20°C. This category mainly includes solvents, degreasers, solvents...

Détecteur à ionisation de flamme (FID); Flame Ionization Detector

The measurement is based on the detection of ions formed during the combustion of an organic molecule in a hydrogen flame.

Chromatographie gazeuse/spectrométrie de masse (GC/MS); Gas chromatography/Mass spectrometry

Separation on a column (usually capillary for analysis) of complex mixtures of molecules by gas chromatography, followed by detection (identification and quantification) by mass spectrometry.