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IT has been found that the electrical conductivity of a flame burning a mixture of hydrogen and nitrogen (in air) is very sensitively affected by the vapours of organic substances, and this effect can be used for detection purposes in gas chromatography.
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McWILLIAM, I., DEWAR, R. Flame Ionization Detector for Gas Chromatography. Nature 181, 760 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181760a0
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