




- High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC) is an analytical technique for the separation and
determination of organic and inorganic solutes in any samples especially
biological, pharmaceutical, food, environmental, industrial, etc. In a
liquid chromatographic process a liquid permeates through a porous solid
stationary phase and elutes the solutes into a flow-through detector.
- The stationary phase is usually in
the
- form of small-diameter (5-10 mm)
uniform particles, packed into a cylindrical column.
- The typical column is constructed
from a rigid material (such as stainless steel or plastic) and is
generally 5-30 cm long and the internal diameter is in the range of1-9
mm.
- A high pressure pump is required to
force the mobile phase through the column at typical flow rates of 0.1-2
ml/min.
- The sample to be separated is
introduced into the mobile phase by injection device, manual or
automatic, prior to the column.
- The detector usually contains low
volume cell through which the mobile phase passes carrying the sample
components.

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