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Articles by Thermo Fisher Scientific

The first charged aerosol detector (CAD) was introduced in 2005. Nearly twenty years later, this near-universal detector has become an indispensable tool in the analytical chemist’s quantitative arsenal. This paper explores the CAD’s origin story, its adoption into everyday use by separation scientists, and its comparison to evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD). Technical highlights will include how parameters such as evaporation temperature influence application versatility, and how the power function impacts linearity and response behavior.

In this study, the suitability of the TSQ 9610 triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS system was assessed for the analysis of more than 200 pesticides in black tea at trace concentrations supplemented with SPE cleanup. The linearity, accuracy, precision, limit of quantitation, and injection reproducibility of 20 selected analytes representative of the different pesticide classes in black tea matrix are demonstrated.