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As part of a comprehensive investigation into the physics of various forms of ionization detector for use in gas Chromatography, it became necessary to determine the effect of water vapour on detector sensitivity. Lovelock1 shows a graph which indicates that the sensitivity of a macro-argon detector was reduced 10-fold by a change in water vapour concentration from about 30 p.p.m. to about 1,000 p.p.m. v/v. At less than 30 p.p.m. of water vapour, the detector response is constant2.
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HILL, D., NEWELL, H. Effect of Water Vapour on the Sensitivity of a Macro-argon Ionization Detector. Nature 205, 593 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205593a0
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