Tag Archives: GC-MS

“Can you take a quick look and tell me what’s in this?”

Posted on 11th January 2012 by Ray Perkins

How many times have you been asked that question? Assuming the “what” is a small organic molecule, then GC-MS is the tool that you would probably turn to, but you can easily come to grief with the sample preparation and introduction, … Continue reading →

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Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction – Are We Missing Something?

Posted on 4th April 2011 by Ray Perkins

A few weeks ago, at Pittcon 2011 in Atlanta, I bumped into David Benanou of Veolia Water. David informed me that he had recently attracted over 1,200 people to a conference in France that he had organized, on the topic … Continue reading →

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Labratory Evaluation of ATOMX Purge & Trap System

Posted on 17th December 2010 by Bob Green

I Just thought I’d share with you my recent experience with the Teledyne Tekmar ATOMX. The Purge and Trap market in the UK has been quiet for some time, with most clients using headspace for VOC analysis due to the … Continue reading →

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Automating QuEChERS for Pesticide Residues

Posted on 2nd July 2010 by Bob Green

I was recently at the European Pesticide Residues Workshop, held this year in Strasbourg. I was invited along by Gerstel to present a talk “Automating Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction Clean-Up (QuEChERS) for LC-QQQ & GC-MS” at their Vendor seminar and … Continue reading →

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