Flash Species-selective Analysis by Multicapillary Gas Chromatography with Microwave Induced Plasma Atomic Spectrometric Detection

Abstract

Multicapillary column isothermal gas chromatography with element-selective detection has been shown to allow the ultra-rapid (<30 s instead of about 10 min) analysis of non-polar compounds with boiling-points of 200–300 °C, without sacrificing the resolution and efficiency of conventional capillary GC with oven temperature gradient programming. An example of speciation analysis for butyltin compounds in a PACS-1 certified reference sediment is shown.

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