GC013 Advantages of gas chromatography - Part 3

 

Efficiency is a measure of how well the separations can be performed and is expressed in plate numbers. Capillary columns are known to possess several hundred thousand plate numbers. The efficiency of a column increases with column length. In theory, having very long columns can make analysis very efficient, however and unlimited increase in length is not practical and nowadays complex separations are performed by using comprehensive two-dimensional GC.

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