Crime Scene Chromatography Quiz

Are you more Inspector Clouseau than Magnum P.I.?

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Chromatography Food Quiz

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.

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Infrared Spectroscopy Pub Quiz

How Much do You Know About Infrared Spectroscopy?

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How to choose an HPLC Column

Some great general hints and tips for HPLC column selection.
Read the literature: It is very rare that a separation has never been performed before and so checking the literature, refereed journals...
Run a generic method: So you have read the literature and still have not found a separation...

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HPLC Mobile Phases – 10 bad habits to avoid

1) Measuring the pH of the mobile phase after the organic has been added
2) Not using a buffer
3) Not using the buffer in its correct pH range
4) Adding buffer to organic

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Troubleshooting retention time variability in HPLC

Everyone doing HPLC analysis has experienced drifting or unstable analyte retention times at some point – usually just as you’re about to head home! 

Some quick tips on how to avoid the problems and improve method robustness
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10 Common GC Mistakes

1) Not Taking Enough Care at the Inlet
2) Turning the oven on before the carrier gas
3) Not programming in column dimensions

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10 Ways to Break Your LC-MS

If there’s one mantra that’s essential for an LC (or GC)-MS operator it’s “contamination, contamination, contamination”. Keep contamination to a minimum and you’ll enjoy a reliable instrument; don’t take the necessary precautions and instead you’ll enjoy reaching for the vent switch and purchasing lots of spares.   More »

Celebrating 5 Years of Online Training

CHROMacademy - going from strength to strength!

This Year Our 27,000 members have viewed over 1.5 million pages, taken 24,000+ assessments and accessed 9,500 hours of webcast/video. www.CHROMacademy.com