What is a “High Nitrogen” Value and How to Identify Possible Causes and Solutions
Air is 78.09 % Nitrogen and 20.95 % Oxygen or approximately a 4:1 ratio.
Nitrogen in the MS ion source significantly reduces the sensitivity. You woul...
How Does Carrier Gas Flow and Vacuum Work Together in GC/MS
A diagram of the GC Split/Splitless inlet is shown. Gas is compressible, so to change the flows and pressures in the entire inlet subsystem quickly and accurately requires enough chang...
How to Identity the Root Cause of Common GC/MS Issues
Ion Ratio/Spectral Tilt
Tune Ion Peak Shape
Chromatographic Peak Shape
Where can problems in your GC/MS System occur? How can you identify what part of the GC/MS system you should be troub...
I’m the first GCMS blogger for the Agilent Customer Community and this is article number 1. We’ll navigate through the GCMS talking about how it works and what needs to be done to keep one running smoothly. That is going...
