Today (and for the past three decades), gas chromatography is one of the most widely used technique in analytical chemistry.
The popularity and applicability of gas chromatography is principally due to its unchallenged resolving power for closely related volatile compounds, as well as the high sensitivity and selectivity offered by many of the detector systems. The technique is potentially very accurate and precise when used in a routine laboratory.
This document provides guidance to the inexperienced analyst on various important aspects of GC analysis.
Topics covered include:
- Basic Theory
- Key parameters
- Quantitative measures of column efficiency
- Injection and sampling methods
- The chromatographic column, selection and handling
- Column oven and temperature programming
- Detectors
- Data handling
- Recording, manipulating, and reporting data
- Checks, calibration and standards
- Troubleshooting
- Practical exercises to evaluate competence
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Sources of information
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