Chances are good that most of us will go through life without ever having to perform gas chromatography, and if we do have the occasion to do so, it’ll likely be on a professional basis using a ...

Gas chromatography is an innovative technique that uses an inert carrier gas for separating and quantitating vaporized compounds. It is based on principles similar to column permeation chromatography, ...

Gas chromatography (GC) is an older analytical technique that is still widely used today. It is a technique that can be used with both inorganic and organic analytes, but the one requirement is that ...

In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...

Gas chromatography was discovered by Russian-Italian botanist, Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet, in the early 1900s. The separation technique is used to first split the chemical components of a mixture, then ...