gas chromatography
chromatography in which a substance is converted into vapor and mixed with a gaseous element, as nitrogen, then separated and quantified by preferential adsorption by a solid or liquid element.
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Next, the team created a “chemical fingerprint” of the airborne components that contributed to each cultivar’s unique scent using gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy and a sulfur chemiluminescence detector.
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British Dictionary definitions for gas chromatography
a technique for analysing a mixture of volatile substances in which the mixture is carried by an inert gas through a column packed with a selective adsorbent and a detector records on a moving strip the conductivity of the gas leaving the tube. Peaks on the resulting graph indicate the presence of a particular component: Also called: gas-liquid chromatography
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