• Question: What are the words Gas Chromatography and Mass spectrometry mean?

    Asked by Angel to Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 17 Nov 2016.
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      Miranda Bane answered on 17 Nov 2016:


      Chromatography is a process where you separate out a mixture to find out what it is made of. So gas chromatography is doing this to find out what gases are made of.
      Mass spectroscopy is a similar thing but it sorts a compound into ions and weighs them to find out what they are.

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