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The use of coupled gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy for the separation and identification of organic compounds.
The use of coupled gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy for the separation and identification of organic compounds.
| Module code and title: | S304, The nature of chemistry |
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| Item code: | S304; 21; 1978 |
| Recording date: | 17-08-1977 |
| First transmission date: | 1978 |
| Published: | 1978 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | David Jackson |
| Contributors: | Margaret Blight; Keith Bolton; Fred Mellon; R. Williams; M. Whitehouse; Barrie Frost |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cigarette; Drugs; Dutch elm beetle; Forensic; Gas chromatography; Mars; Mass spectroscopy; Smoke |
| Footage description: | Footage - Drawing of gas chromatograph & mass spectrometer (0'30"-1'58") - Drawing of beetle. Trees with Dutch Elm disease (2'00"-2'45") - Air entrainment apparatus. Gas chromatograph trace (2'46"-4'25") - Mass spectrum of elm & beetle extract (4'26"-5'53") - Blood sample. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry section. Animation of jet separator. Blood sample injected into gas chromatograph (7'04"-10'31") - Inter-scan data (11'02"-12'30") - Mass spectrum of methaqualone (12'41"-13'44") - GC trace of cigarette smoke (15'28"-15'40") - Gas separation of volatile compounds in cigarette smoke. Chromatogram of tobacco and tobacco substitute (15'41-17'02") - Capillary column of smoke connected to mass spectrometer. Diagram of double beam mass spectrometer. Spectrum on oscilloscope (17'03"-19'32") - Computer plot of total ion current as a function of scan number. List of compounds (20'00"-21'35"). |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72449 |
| Production number: | 6HT72449 |
| Videofinder number: | 904 |
| Available to public: | no |
