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This study demonstrates the analysis of live chemical warfare agents and simulants at trace and higher levels.

How Tube-Based Thermal Desorption Can be Used to Monitor Chemical Warfare Agents at Ultratrace Levels

Our annual review of new gas chromatography products.

New Gas Chromatography Products for 2021–2022

This GC–FID method enables accurate determination of cooling agents, which are flavor compounds commonly used in cigarette tipping paper.

Optimization of Determination Method of Cooling Agents in Cigarette Tipping Paper by Gas Chromatography

The glass inlet liner is one of the most important, yet least understood and most often ignored, components of a gas chromatographic experiment.

Split/Splitless Inlets in Gas Chromatography: What’s Up with All Those Different Glass Inlet Liners?

This time of year tends to serve as a reminder that while women may be entering more degrees and careers in science than ever before, there is still a need to advocate for gender parity in many sectors.

The LCGC Blog: She Separates—The Female Voices of Separation Science

Barry L Karger is Director Emeritus of the Barnett Institute, and is the James L. Waters Emeritus Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University in Boston. 

Improving Chromatography for Analysis of Biological and Pharmaceutical Molecules: Barry L. Karger, the 2022 winner of the Lifetime Achievement in Chromatography Award 

Tony Taylor is Group Technical Director of Crawford Scientific Group and CHROMacademy. His background is in pharmaceutical R&D and polymer chemistry, but he has spent the past 20 years in training and consulting, working with Crawford Scientific Group clients to ensure they attain the very best analytical science possible. He has trained and consulted with thousands of analytical chemists globally and is passionate about professional development in separation science, developing CHROMacademy as a means to provide high-quality online education to analytical chemists. His current research interests include HPLC column selectivity codification, advanced automated sample preparation, and LCâMS and GCâMS for materials characterization, especially in the field of extractables and leachables analysis.

The ability to predict issues and highlight unusual method parameters, before ever entering the laboratory, allows you to be alert for potential issues with a separation, or to change the method (where applicable) prior to initiating any experimentation. These detective skills, when applied in retrospect, are also invaluable for troubleshooting problems with the chromatographic separation or quantitative results.

The LCGC Blog: Critical Evaluation of Chromatography Methods (II)—Evaluating Gas Chromatography Methods

When applying Golay’s equation for height equivalent of a theoretical plate (HETP) to capillary GC, you should ask three key questions.

Is Golay’s Famous Equation for HETP Still Relevant in Capillary Gas Chromatography? Part 2: Assumptions and Consequences

You're invited to publicize your 2021–2022 new product introductions in LCGC. Here's how to get your products included.

LCGC 2022 New Product Review – Call For Submissions

QuEChERS has been updated to suit modern instrumentation. Now also “efficient and robust,” QuEChERSER is a “mega-method” that covers a wider polarity range.

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