TOC: Total organic carbon (TOC) is the amount of carbon found in an organic compound and is often used as a non-specific indicator of water quality.
A typical analysis for total TC measures both the total organic carbon, also known as TOC, present and the complementing total inorganic carbon, also known as TIC. The latter represents the amount of non-organic carbon, like carbon in carbonate minerals.
Subtracting the inorganic carbon from the total carbon yields TOC. Another common variant of TOC analysis involves removing the TIC portion first and then measuring the leftover carbon.
This method involves purging an acidified sample with carbon-free air or nitrogen prior to measurement, and so is more accurately called non-purgeable organic carbon (NPOC)
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