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The answer to the following question was provided by LCGC?s ?Column Watch? editor Ron Majors. Q:What is the best way to regenerate a contaminated silica-based, reversed-phase HPLC column?

Participants in this discussion of hyphenated techniques in chromatography are from ALMSCO, Agilent Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Torion Technologies.

Let The Center for Professional Advancement?s (CfPA) technical training courses equip you with the tools and knowledge you need to get-up-to-speed, refresh or stay-ahead.

Asia's growing influence

Asian countries are eroding US leadership in science and engineering, a study released to the White House by the National Science Board (NSB) has found.

His Latest Flame

Micro-flame photometric detection offers advantages over conventional flame photometric detection. Alasdair Matheson spoke to Kevin Thurbide from the University of Calgary to find out more.

LGC Standards has announced that ULTRA Scientific, one of its key suppliers, has gained ISO Guide 34 accreditation for the production of organic and inorganic certified reference materials.

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There is an old axiom, attributed to various individuals, that holds: "Luck favors the prepared." This can apply to nearly any endeavor or project in life, as generally speaking, the harder you work, the more likely it is that good things will happen.

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Most readers of LCGC are no doubt familiar with the debate that has been going on within the field of analytical chemistry concerning the conference industry. Are in-person events becoming less popular? Will budget-tightening impact attendance significantly in 2010? And so on. While there is certainly some validity to the theory that in-person meetings in general are not as business-critical as they once were, to get an idea of how the staff of LCGC feels about this debate, one has only to look at the schedule of events we have planned for Pittcon 2010, set to run from February 28 to March 5 in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

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Digital Update

CHROMacademy - a cutting-edge chromatography e-learning programme - is officially launched at Pittcon in 2010. The site will provide continuing professional development for chromatographers to them make more effective in the work place. CHROMmunity - a social networking site focusing on solving practical problems and troubleshooting - will play a pivotal role on the site.

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Event News

Over the years, the International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) has established its reputation as a forum for microcolumn separation techniques. Since the first meeting in Hindelang in 1975, the most important developments in capillary gas chromatography, microcolumn liquid chromatography and electromigration techniques have been presented in this symposium series.

The acquisition of Varian by Agilent has cleared a key milestone, according to Agilent president and CEO Bill Sullivan. The companies have been granted conditional antitrust clearance from the European Commission for the deal.