Washington and Lee University

Chemistry Department

 

Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer

 

James Browne, Turner Vosseller, John Zimmer, and Wes Hoke (left to right) using the GC Mass Spec

 The Hewlett Packard 5890/5971A Gas

Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS)

allows the separation of mixtures of compounds by

gas chromatography and analysis of each

component by mass spectrometry. Students in the

Organic Spectroscopy course use the GC/MS to

determine the molecular weights of their unknown

samples.

 

 

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