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Polar organic chemical integrative sampler

Passive water-sampling device left submerged for days or weeks, which absorbs dissolved polar organic chemicals and gives a time-averaged measure of what passed through the water.

Known aliases

POCIS
polar organic chemical integrative samplers

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Passive samplers detected contaminants more often than grab bottles in a Pennsylvania creek

Grab bottles and passive in-stream samplers, run side by side for two growing seasons, produced records that disagree about where contamination concentrates and when it peaks. Penn State's team says a program needs both.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption15
Hype gap+15
Incentives30
Confidence58