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chromatograph

American  
[kruh-mat-uh-graf, -grahf, kroh-muh-tuh-] / krəˈmæt əˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈkroʊ mə tə- /

verb (used with object)

  1. to separate mixtures by chromatography.


noun

  1. a piece of equipment used to produce a chromatogram.

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of chromatograph

First recorded in 1855–60; chromato- + -graph

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This allows the evaporates to be collected on a small trap which is then transferred to a gas chromatograph.

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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