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The LCGC Blog: Ammonium Acetate Woes

I’ve been dealing recently with issues in the laboratory when using ammonium acetate buffers, including surprising rises in HPLC–MS back pressures when starting the instrument after overnight storage, as well as difficulties with MS sensitivity.
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Environmental Method Development: Key Challenges and Unmet Needs

Whether working in commercial environmental laboratories or academia, many analytical chemists agree that the number and variety of pollutants requiring analysis today is straining the capabilities of current methods and technologies, the introduction of new standard methods is far too slow, and the community sorely needs a system by which new and up-to-date methods are more easily developed, shared, and adopted. These issues were all raised in some recent LCGC roundtable discussions. Read more

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What a GC–MS Tune Report Can Tell You

A tune report is invaluable because it indicates how well the instrument is operating, and is an essential tool when troubleshooting is required. Read more