Evaporative packing a capillary columns
OwnerGary A. Valaskovicinventor
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Abstract
Method for loading a column with a packing material by inserting one end of a column to be packed into a slurry of a packing material in a volatile solvent, allowing said slurry to be drawn into said end of said column by capillary action, withdrawing said end from said slurry, and removing said volatile solvent from the slurry that has been drawn into said end of said column, through the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and sinteriing.
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A method for loading a column with a packing material which comprises forming a slurry of a packing material in a volatile solvent, inserting one end of a column to be packed into said slurry, allowing said slurry to be drawn into said end of said column by capillary action, withdrawing said end from said slurry, and removing said volatile solvent from the slurry that has been drawn into said end of said column, through the same end of the column at which the slurry entered.
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