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compounds
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                            Stability—good
                          Linearity—10*
                       Response—ail
                     MDQ—10°°g
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          (the   integrator,   bridge   the   However,   because   ultimately   from   free   or   maintain   specify   (AT),   simpler   provides   less   and   desirable   Typically,   packed   not   and   in   columns   etching   the   the   the   so   highest   Table   TC   unusual   [21].   helium   values   directly
         divider   recorder,   the  thermal   the   and   filaments,   sensitivity.   life   wires,   must   be   voltage   to   may   difference   filament   unlike   the   limits,   is  volume   sensitivity.   for   has   20   to   uL   be  obtained   capillary   made   by   Another   operation   through   thermal   analyzed,   have   the   listed   in   smaller   to   get   inversion   using   response   correlate   for
         voltage   a   to   eluted,   value   the   filament   system   constant   used   controls   the   Nulling   detection   cell   good   very   capillaries   down   can   when   been   its   in   alternately   a   have   to   be   which   values   much   expect   peak   hydrogen   relative   not   necessary
         a   fed   fully   former   to   the   shorter   tungsten   GC   at   can   be   temperature   Controlling   Bridge,   unbalance.   small   greater   are   narrow   required   has   instrument.   TCD;   must   hydrogen   have   can   partial   does   are
         across   is   it   of   is   its   applied   greater   in   the   the   carrier gas.   operated   circuit   detector   a   the   lower   a   and   which   with   volumes   chromatograms   small   cell   passed   [5].   TCD   samples   relative   solids   one   to   due   analyze   experimental   response   factors
         dropped   part   or   analyte   returns   to   current   the   and   result   oxidize   reason,   be   can   the   or   control.   of   to  nulling   the  bridge   amplification,   chapter,   shapes   wL   140   Their   use   with   good   is  usually   micro-GC   single-cell   are   second   the   from   the   and  helium   from   the   liquids   and   gas,   W   a   of   attempts   to   some   TCD   calibration   FID.
         is   all   After   the   heating   also   readily   this   oxygen-free   Bridge   elaborate   Thus,   temperature,   type   amounts   this   in   of  peak   around   available   that   gas   extremely   a   for   uL)   (5   reference)   per   with   are   seen   as   carrier   a   shape   Although   the   for   the
         voltage   then   system.   cavities   the   differential   temperatures   oxygen   For   out.   with   more   temperature.   a   particular   measures   greater   earlier   capillaries.   are   shown   Make-up   An   chip   volume   and   times   10   used   gas   different   gases   be   well   used   as   the   one   if   contains   obvious   as


         That   and   data   sample   larger   of   burn   operated   Wheatstone   but   a   a  voltage,   the   it  constant   directly   range,   noted   reproduction   volumes   bore   but   cells   have   19].   TCDs.   a silica   on   small   (sample   of   carrier   very   is   used   It   [20].   can   as  gases   is   often   in   occurs   [22].   also   7.4   listed.   is   it   the   same


         bridge.   attenuator)   the   balance.   The   temperature   filament   impurities   to   The   current,   filament   current,   on   keep   have   wide   [18,   with   a   frequency   that   commonly   other   nitrogen   effect   gas   Table   samples   values,
   116       other   in   to   them   and   ing   to   which   linear   [17].   As   faithful   cells   or   routine,   Studies   cases   used   volume   uses   streams   a   The   (TC)   values   all   If   shapes,   same   carrier   the   TC   analysis,
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