gas chromatograph
Americannoun
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Origin of gas chromatograph
First recorded in 1950–55
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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
First the gas chromatograph vaporized a speck of the powder inside a tube.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2016
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
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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