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The use of coupled gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy for the separation and identification of organic compounds.
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Module code and title: S304, The nature of chemistry
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