Application Notes: Environmental

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New separation techniques for the analysis of polar and ionic analytes have aroused great interest in the field of metabolomics and environmental investigation in the past two decades. Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) is a promising tool to address this challenge. HILIC separation is based on the polarity of analytes, which generally show stronger retention with increasing polarity according to the HILIC separation mechanism. Furthermore, the high content of organic solvent in the mobile phase leads to good ionization properties in the electrospray ionization (ESI), and consequently enhances the detection sensitivity by hyphenated mass spectrometry (MS) detector.

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Microwave extraction becomes faster and easier with the new Milestone ETHOS X with its FastEX-24. This application note shows the use of Milestone technology for extraction of dioxins from environmental matrices, with emphasis on one of the most common challenge of this application: the carryover effect. The unique design of the FastEX-24 rotor with disposable glass vials allows easy and efficient dioxin extraction, and other organic pollutants, to be performed, avoiding any memory effect. The FastEX-24 simplifies the routine pollutants extraction process and provides superior productivity at lower costs.