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and if the connecting tube is empty (no stationary phase coating),

Now, again from the Plate Theory [3],the peak variance in volume units of a connecting tube of
length (lt) is given by

where (nt) is the number of theoretical plates in the connecting tube. Now,

again by definition, Thus, replacing by (Ht) from

equation (3.9), and substituting for (Ht) from equation (3.8),

and for an empty column or a solute eluted at the dead volume, i.e. k'= 0, thus