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To: IronJack

Gas chromatography and mass spectrometers use Helium as a carrier gas.
No Helium...No analytical results.


65 posted on 05/18/2019 5:47:37 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I suspect there's plenty of helium available in the world for those uses.

If I recall my college Organic Analysis classes, we used argon as the inert carrier for GC and mass spec.

67 posted on 05/18/2019 5:56:10 PM PDT by IronJack
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