Whether we know it or not, we rely on a host of analytical techniques in many aspects of our lives, from developing medications to keeping our food safe to enforcing the law. Many of the compounds ...

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 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 ...

Edited by Herman A. Szymanski. (Based on Lectures presented during the Fifth Annual Gas Chromatography Institute at Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, 1963.) Pp.324. (New York: Plenum Press, 1964.) ...