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The origination, development and potentialities of glass capillary columns

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After a short historical review of the sequence of events which led up to the origination of glass capillaries, the development and performance of capillary drawing machines both of the author's design and commercially available, are discussed. Mention is then made of the difficulties of coating capillaries with thin stable films of involatile organic liquids together with some thoughts on new methods for the surface treatment of the bore. New shapes for capillaries are suggested in terms of flat rather than the usual round columns, non uniform crinkled columns and specially shaped regular cores, which may be drawn into the tubes. Anodized alumina wire cores seem particularly attractive for this purpose. Finally, the subject of high speed gas chromatography is reviewed and an image of tomorrow's sub-picogram high speed analyser suggested.

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Desty, D.H. The origination, development and potentialities of glass capillary columns. Chromatographia 8, 452–455 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02267582

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