title: Metal tubing/frit with a sintered frit of silica particles and a chromatography column with such tubing/frits.
abstract: This study is about the metal tubing/frit prepared by treating a powdered silica with a strong base, drying it, scrubbing it into powders, putting it in the tip of metal tubing at a proper depth, and sintering the powders to form a durable sintered frit. This study is also about a liquid chromatographic column prepared by installing the metal tubing/frit at the column inlet and outlet unions and by placing the column main body tubing packed with a stationary phase between the two unions. The metal tubing/frit made according to the description is easily replaced and fixed without disassembling the column when it is necessary. The column of this design could be a cheap substitute for the conventional microcolumn.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, South Korea. wjcheong@inha.ac.kr
authors.forename: Won Jo
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Cheong
mesh_terms: D002853:Chromatography, Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008670:Metals; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D010316:Particle Size; D012822:Silicon Dioxide; D013193:Stainless Steel
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D013193:Stainless Steel; D012822:Silicon Dioxide