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2 unusual facts about gas chromatography


Gas chromatography

In practical courses at colleges, students sometimes get acquainted to the GC by studying the contents of Lavender oil or measuring the ethylene that is secreted by Nicotiana benthamiana plants after artificially injuring their leaves.

In the U.S. TV show CSI, for example, GCs are used to rapidly identify unknown samples.


Dehydrogenative coupling of silanes

Routine MS and GC-MS spectroscopy do not provide useful data for these substrates.

Muhammad Yar Khuhawar

His research group has synthesized a number of Schiff base polymers and have developed new stationary phase for Gas Chromatography and sensitive Liquid Chromatography procedures for the determination of pesticide malathion.

Trimethylsilyl chloride

Trimethylsilylation can also be used to increase the volatility of a compound, enabling gas chromatography of normally nonvolatile substances such as glucose.


see also

Headspace

Headspace technology, the gaseous constituents of a closed space above liquids or solid emitting and vapors measured using headspace gas chromatography

Meg Gardiner

"CSI is great, but I wanted to go beyond it. In the real world, crime lab technology is not an infallible truth-o-meter. Physical evidence is not in fact bulletproof. Real life is murkier—and more fascinating. That's what Jo explores. She goes beyond DNA sequencing and gas chromatography to uncover why a victim has died. And she can come at cases from fresh, atypical angles."