In a story featured in the ?Hot Science? section on the website of the PBS television show Nova, chromatography is used as a method for analyzing residue at the World Trade Center site. The process of adsorption is described, and a link to a ?Color Separator Activity? is provided.
Chromatography Featured in Nova EpisodeIn a story featured in the “Hot Science” section on the website of the PBS television show Nova, chromatography is used as a method for analyzing residue at the World Trade Center site.
The process of adsorption is described, and a link to a “Color Separator Activity” is provided.By using an analogy involving sawdust and magnets, the principles of chromatography are described in an easy-to-understand manner.
The story can be found at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bombingactivity/chroma2.html
Inside the Laboratory: The Chromatography Laboratory at the University of Rouen
April 18th 2024In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Pascal Cardinael and Valérie Agasse of the University of Rouen in Mont‑Saint-Aignan, France, discuss their laboratory’s work with miniaturizing gas chromatography (GC) columns and systems to improve on-site air analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).