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Also known as GC chromatography, Chromatography, Gas

type of chromatography to separate complex mixtures

Key facts

Acronym
GC
Classification
Chromatography
Analytes
Organic Inorganic Must be volatile
Related
Thin layer chromatography High performance liquid chromatography
Hyphenated
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

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Research

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Encyclopedic overview

Gas chromatography (GC) is a common type of chromatography used in analytical chemistry for separating and analyzing compounds that can be vaporized without decomposition. Typical uses of GC include testing the purity of a particular substance or separating the different components of a mixture. In preparative chromatography, GC can be used to prepare pure compounds from a mixture.

Gas chromatography is also sometimes known as vapor-phase chromatography (VPC), or gas–liquid partition chromatography (GLPC). These alternative names, as well as their respective abbreviations, are frequently used in scientific literature.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “gas chromatography” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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