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Micro-packed Columns for Gas Chromatography

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As long ago as 1956, Dr. A. J. P. Martin pointed out1 that operation of thermal conductivity detectors at reduced pressures should enable them to measure samples at the µg-level and he states that columns would be correspondingly smaller in diameter, perhaps 0.2 mm.

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  1. Martin, A. J. P., Vapour Phase Chromatography, edit. by Desty, D. H., 2 (Butterworths, London, 1957).

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CARTER, H. Micro-packed Columns for Gas Chromatography. Nature 197, 684–685 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197684a0

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