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Investigation of turbomixers in continuous flow analysis
T L Spinks1, G E Pacey, L Fabian
1Department of Chemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, U.S.A.
Talanta
|March 1, 1992
Abstract:
This paper describes an investigation of turbomixers as replacements for mixing coils in FIA. The turbomixer is a device that will efficiently mix three streams simultaneously. Although the traditional FIA gradient is not produced, the data shows that the reproducibility of a turbomixer continuous flow system is comparable to a standard FIA system.
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