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Prof. Marriot challenging
his brain...
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How Many Plates?
Winners of Restek's Column Contest from the
32
nd
International Symposium on Capilla ry
GCAnnounced
The
International Symposium on Capillary
CC
is one of the leading symposia on capillary separation technol
ogy in the world. Restek contr ibuted to this event with many technical posters and pap ers, but we also had time
for a little fun!
At
Restek's
booth , a game was played where the participant had to guess the plate number of a GC column and
an LC column. The prize was a free GC or LC column. The GC column chosen for the challenge, was a 20 m x
0.18mm Rxi-5 Sil MS. The LC column was a 5 em x 2.1 mm. 1.9 urn Pinnacle DB. Many visitors made their
guess by looking at the chro ma togram or calculating efficiency'from colum n dimension s.
The winner on the GC column was Prof. Philip Mar riot, RMIT University,Melbourne , Australia. His estimation
of 112.000 theore tical plates was withi n 2% of the real value!
The winner for the closest plate number guess for the LC column was Pavel Karasek, from the Institu te of
Analytical Chemistry, Brno, Czech Republic.
Congratulations to both scientists!
Visit
http://www.restek.com/ts_riva2008.aspfor electron ic copies of
Restek's
posters and papers presented
at the
32
nd
International Symposium on Capillary
Cc.
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