chromatograph
Americanverb (used with object)
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These are then put into a gas chromatograph, which separates the chemical components.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
On deck, Sylva places a water sample in a gas chromatograph, what looks like a steampunk version of a mid-1980s microwave.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 12, 2018
The most damning evidence came from a device called a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, which looked for organic molecules — the kind of complex molecules necessary for life on Earth.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2016
Sometimes a gas chromatograph or high-performance liquid chromatograph provides an initial separation of the large molecules, which are then input into the mass spectrometer.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The gas chromatograph on the Pioneer Venus entry probes gave an abundance of water in the lower atmosphere of a few tenths of a percent.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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