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Another advantage of the micro-LC approach is that the required sample size is minimal, so the sample can be drawn from a 1-1 laboratory scale reactor without influencing the reactor composition. The ISCO pLC-500 microflow syringe pump has proven to be reliable and reproducible in evaluations in our laboratory. Capillary liquid columns have been fabricated on planar devices such as silicon to form a miniaturized separation device.19... 

But for some liquids exists the third stage of liquid s penetration inside conical capillary, which was established in [5]. During this stage a channel is filling both from its entrance and from its closed top. Two liquid columns arise and are growing towards each other till the complete channel s filling (fig. 2). The most intriguing pattern can be observed when we exclude direct liquid s access to channel s entrance. It corresponds to the cases... 

At first we tried to explain the phenomenon on the base of the existence of the difference between the saturated vapor pressures above two menisci in dead-end capillary [12]. It results in the evaporation of a liquid from the meniscus of smaller curvature ( classical capillary imbibition) and the condensation of its vapor upon the meniscus of larger curvature originally existed due to capillary condensation. We worked out the mathematical description of both gas-vapor diffusion and evaporation-condensation processes in cone s channel. Solving the system of differential equations for evaporation-condensation processes, we ve derived the formula for the dependence of top s (or inner) liquid column growth on time. But the calculated curves for the kinetics of inner column s length are 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than the experimental ones [12]. 

Since capillary tubing is involved in osmotic experiments, there are several points pertaining to this feature that should be noted. First, tubes that are carefully matched in diameter should be used so that no correction for surface tension effects need be considered. Next it should be appreciated that an equilibrium osmotic pressure can develop in a capillary tube with a minimum flow of solvent, and therefore the measured value of II applies to the solution as prepared. The pressure, of course, is independent of the cross-sectional area of the liquid column, but if too much solvent transfer were involved, then the effects of dilution would also have to be considered. Now let us examine the practical units that are used to express the concentration of solutions in these experiments. 

J. Cai and J. Henion, Quantitative multi-residue determination of /3-agonists in bovine urine using on-line immunoaffinity extr action-coupled column packed capillary liquid cliromatogr aphy-tandem mass spectr ometry , 7. Chromatogr. 691 357-370 (1997). 

J. Cai and J. Henion, On-line immunoaffinity exti action-coupled column capillary liquid cliromatography/tandem mass specb omeb y trace analysis of LSD analogs and metabolites in human urine . Anal. Chem. 68 72-78 (1996). 

Compared with liquid column chromatography, in PLC there is a certain limitation with respect to the composition of the mobile phase in the case of reversed-phase chromatography. In planar chromatography the flow of the mobile phase is normally induced by capillary forces. A prerequisite for this mechanism is that the surface of the stationary phase be wetted by the mobile phase. This, however, results in a Umitation in the maximum possible amount of water applicable in the mobile phase, is dependent on the hydrophobic character of the stationary RP phase. To... 

MacNair, J.E., Patel, K.D., and Jorgenson, J.W., Ultrahigh-pressure reversed-phase capillary liquid chromatography isocratic and gradient elution using columns packed with 1.0 pm particles, Anal. Chem., 71, 700, 1999. 

Motokawa, M., Kobayashi, H., Ishizuka, N., Minakuchi, H., Nakanishi, K., Jinnai, H., Hosoya, K., Ikegami, T., Tanaka, N. (2002). Monolithic silica columns with various skeleton size and through-pore size for capillary liquid chromatography. J. Chromatogr. A 961, 53-63. 

Analysis Techniques. The contents of the major breakdown products of xetralin (naphthalene and 1-methyl indan) present in the distillate were determined by gas-liquid chromatography using a Hewlett Packard Series 5750 Research Chromatograph with a 62m x 0.5mm diameter glass capillary SCOT column coated with nonpolar SE 30 liquid phase (see Reference (4 ) for details). 

Analytical instrumental methods are commonly referred to by abbreviations using the first letters of the method s name (see Table 15.1). Thus, GC always refers to gas chromatography and MS to mass spectrometry. When these abbreviations are used, there is commonly no indication as to the type of GC (i.e., capillary, packed column, gas-solid, gas-liquid) being used. Likewise, no indication of the MS ionization method being used (i.e., El or Cl) is given. 

A negative pressure, known as a suction potential, will exist in the liquid in the capillary. Immediately below the meniscus, the suction potential will be equivalent to the height of the liquid column hs and, if water is used, this will have the value ... 

Similarly, if a uniform capillary is filled to a height greater than hs, as given by equation 16.17, and its lower end is immersed, the liquid column will recede to this height. 

Song Y, Quan Z, Evans JL, Byrd EA, Liu YM. 2004. Enhancing capillary liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry of biogenic amines by pre-column derivatization with 7-fLuoro-4-nitrobenzoxadiazole. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 18 989. 

J. D. Protein-doped monolithic silica columns for capillary liquid chromatography prepared by the sol-gel method applications to frontal affinity chromatography. Anal Chem... 

Rruss, A., Kempter, C., Gysler, 1., and lira, T., Evaluation of packed capillary liquid chromatography columns and comparison with conventional-size columns. Journal of Chromatography A 1030(1-2), 167-176, 2004. 

Huang, X. A., Zhang, S., Schultz, G. A., and Henion, J., Surface-alkylated polystyrene monolithic columns for peptide analysis in capillary liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 74(10), 2336-2344, 2002. 

A few gas chromatography (GC) and liquid chromatography (LC) studies have been reported. Eor example, PCDDs have been separated on a 50m x 0.25 mm polar fused silica capillary GC column (CP Sil-88, Chrompack) with helium as carrier gas and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)/MS detectors <1997ANC1113>. Furthermore, a highly sensitive and accurate GC-MS method for rapid quantitative analysis of 1,4-dioxane in water has been described <1997JCH(787)283>. 

For pedagogical reasons, we deal only with pure organic compounds. Pure in this context is a relative term, and all we can say is the purer, the better. A good criterion of purity for a sufficiently volatile compound (no nonvolatile impurities present) is gas chromatographic homogeneity on both polar and nonpolar substrates in capillary columns. Various forms of liquid-phase chromatography (adsorption and liquid-liquid columns, thin layer) are applicable to less volatile compounds. The spectra presented in this book were obtained on purified samples. 

In successive runs, the capillary on the solution side of the membrane is filled with solution to some initial setting that will be above or below the equilibrium location of the meniscus. At various times after the initial settings, the height of the liquid column is mea-... 

A simple —but incorrect — relationship between the height of capillary rise, capillary radius, contact angle, and surface tension is easily derived. At equilibrium the vertical component of the surface tension (2icRcy cos 0) equals the weight of the liquid column, approximated as the weight of a cylinder of height h and radius Rc. This leads to the approximation... 

With this idea in mind, the horizontal surface in Figure 6.3b can be taken as a reference level at which Ap = 0. Just under the meniscus in the capillary the pressure is less than it would be on the other side of the surface owing to the curvature of the surface. The fact that the pressure is less in the liquid in the capillary just under the curved surface than it is at the reference plane causes the liquid to rise in the capillary until the liquid column generates a compensating hydrostatic pressure. The capillary possesses an axis of symmetry therefore at the bottom of the meniscus the radius of curvature is the same in the two perpendicular planes that include the axis. If we identify this radius of curvature by b, then the Laplace equation applied to the meniscus is Ap = 2y/b. Equating this to the hydrostatic pressure gives... 

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