title: Do we always need mass spectrometry with gas chromatography?
abstract: The detector, as well as being an essential supporting device for the gas chromatography (GC) has also played a critical role in the development of the technique as a whole. The mass spectrometer (MS) is still the commonly praised detector as before. In fact, the information of fragmentation patterns is seldom used in practice, and the GC-MS instrument is even more expensive. For today' s analytical problems, it seems that element specific detectors can and should be used for many applications rather than GC-MS.
authors.affiliation: International Scientific Communications, Inc., Shelton, CT 06484, USA. rlsteven@comcast.net
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stevenson