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Deterioration of Solid-coated Capillary Columns on Standing

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THE recent introduction of capillary columns, which are able to give efficiencies of up to 1,000,000 theoretical plates1, has given a great stimulus to the technique of gas chromatography. Many separations, heretofore impossible with packed columns, are extremely simple when capillary columns are used.

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  1. Zlatkis, A., and Kaufman, H. R., Nature, 184, 2010 (1959).

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ROUAYHEB, G., HAMILTON, W. Deterioration of Solid-coated Capillary Columns on Standing. Nature 191, 801–802 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191801a0

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