|Articles|November 1, 1999

LCGC North America

  • November 1999
  • Volume 17
  • Issue 11
  • Pages: 1010–1015

A Coin-Toss Experiment, Part II – Limits of the Analogy

In part I, Hinshaw described a simple experiment with coins to explain the statistical nature of separations and to impart a better understanding of the physical processes inside the column. In part II, he compares this coin-toss simulation with chromatographic columns and describes differences between the analogy and real-world situations.

Concluding a two-part column series, this month's "GC Connections" continues the coin-and-coffee-can analogy to represent chromatographic separation. This second part explains how the coin-toss experiment does and does not model situations encountered in real-world chromatography.

LCGC 17(11), 1010–1015 (1999).

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