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Analysing AlkylPyrazines in heated tobacco via comprehensive GC
Analysing Amines is so Difficult
       
Analysing Azo Dyes
Analysing Beef for Nutritional Value
       
Analysing Dioxin Compounds using Selective Dioxin Capillary Columns
       
Analysing Essential Oils
 
Analysing Essential Oils: Conventional Wax vs SolGel-WAX™ columns
 
Analysing Omega 3 Fish Oil
       
Analysing Organochlorine Pesticide using a robust GC Column
Analysing Organophosphorous Pesticides
       
Analysing PCBs on HT8
Analysing PCB
       
Analysing Petroleum Products
       
Analysing Policosanols
Analysing Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether
Analysing Synthetic Pyrethroids
       
Analysing Triglycerides in Foods
       
Analysing using Water as a Solvent
       
Analysing Wines and Spirits
       
Capillary anorexia? Yes, you can be too thin!
 
   
Chemical Characterization of Calvados Young Spirits
Comparison of BPX70 and competitor column for FAME analysis
Comparison of columns typically used for PCB analysis
Comparison of Geranium Oils on a SolGel-WAX™
     
Enhanced GC/HRMS chromatographic analysis of PBDEs, PCDTs and other complex mixtures with narrow bore thin film columns
Essential Oils
       
False Positive Drug Tests from Contaminated Feed
 
Fast Screening of a 100+ Pesticide Mixture
 
“Faster” GC – Is it for you?
 
Fundamentals of Liner design
       
GC Method Development (Part 1)
GC Method Development (Part 2)
Isolation of Phenols from Waste Water (On-line and Off-line Application of Micro-SPE (MEPS))
MagneTOF™ – a new award winning electron multiplier
Measuring Volatiles in Water
       
Myths and Legends 1 - water destroys GC columns
 
Myths and Legends 2 - heating without carrier gas destroys GC columns
 
Olfactory Detection
On-Site Sample Preparation (Micro SPE) using MEPS for Waste Water Analysis
Physicochemical Characterisation of European Blackcurrants
       
Racehorse Drug Doping Screening
       
Reversed Phase HPLC
SCLV analysis of Dioxins and PCBs
 
Sensitivity and Late Eluting Compounds
       
SGE’s new GC columns get tough with Tea
Simultaneous Determination of Steroid Compounds in Biological Matrices by Gas Chromatography
Smoke gets in your Eyes
       
Trans Fatty Acids and Healthy Hearts
 
What's in a Ferrule
       
Whole Protein Separation on C8-silica with 1000Å pores

From the Service Desk Articles  English 
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Achieving Low Levels of Column Bleed
       
Calibrated Syringes
 
Choosing the 'Right' Column
       
Choosing the 'Right' Inlet Supplies for Trace Analysis
       
Choosing the 'Right' Liner for the Job
       
Column Bleed - quantitative determination at last
 
Column Bleed - an explanation!
 
Column Maintenance
 
Column Reconditioning
       
Connecting micro HPLC tubing for micro and nano HPLC analysis
     
Contaminated Carrier Gas? No problem.
       
Electron Multipliers - unravelling the mystery
 
Eliminating Tailing on Peaks
       
Fused Silica - what is it and why do we use it?
GC Oven temperature and its effect on chromatography
Injection Techniques
       
It's all a matter of polarity
 
It's the Little Things that Count
       
Mass Discrimination - Why Should I Care?
       
Method Translation
Nothing Ever Lasts Forever
       
Pyrolysis
 
Resorting to Manual
       
Splitless Injection - choosing the right conditions
       
The Best Aid to Reproducibility - Quartz Wool
       
The Effect of Liner Design
       
The Importance of Checking Carrier Gas Velocity
 
The Importance of Sample Injection
 
The Need to Measure and Optimise Flow Rate
       
Thick or Thin? A quick guide
 
   
Tips for Optimising Multiplier Lifetime
       

Other Articles  English 
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Going, Going, Gone - SGE's Green Credentials
FREE Solvent Slide Rule and Column Selection Guide
 
'GC and Environmental Analysis' Seminar Report
       
'The Chromatography Forum' - A new Voice for Chromatography
'GC and Environmental Analysis' Seminar
       
Get your FREE SGE Applications CD
Dioxin Network Meeting - our Report
 
Win with Your Feedback and Ideas
       
ETP electron multipliers & NEW brochure
 
   
Welcome to Hugh Malkin
       
Holding the Clues to Your Analysis
       
'Retrofit' to Enhance and Optimise your Analyses
       
The ISSFAL conference
       
From Injector to Detector
       
Go On - Get Optimised
       

Syringe Selection Guide