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BackPage Primer from Environmental Building News
July 1, 2007
Volatile Organic Compounds:
Definitions Matter
The term "volatile organic compound" (VOC) means different things to different people. In high school or college chemistry class we learned that VOCs are a class of carbon-based compounds that readily become volatile (gaseous) under ordinary (atmospheric) conditions. Thus, we learned that VOCs are any of those carbon-based compounds that smell strong and readily evaporate—stuff like acetone, rubbing alcohol, and propane.
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