Unsurprisingly, greater than 90% of all gas chromatography instrumentation utilises helium (He) as the carrier gas of choice, suggests Dr. Konrad Grob, Kantonales Laboratory, Zurich (Aug/2018). After all, it’s safe,…
Why are we running out of Helium? There are two primary sources of Helium (He) and its isotopes here on Earth—neither of which are manmade. The first is directly from…
Why don’t many use hydrogen as a carrier? We use helium in Gas Chromatography and GC/Mass Spectrometry because it is effective, safe, and inert, but it is also rare, non-renewable,…