Gold Coating of Glass Tubes for Gas Chromatography/Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy “Light-Pipe” Gas Cells

L. V. Azarraga

Applied Spectroscopy · 1980 · 57 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The sensitivity of gas chromatography/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (GC/FT-IR) may be significantly improved by use of small bore gold-coated glass gas cells. This note describes the method of preparing internally gold-coated glass or quartz tubes for GC-IR applications.