Development and Evaluation of a Low Thermal Mass Gas Chromatograph for Rapid Forensic GC-MS Analyses

Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 288-301

  Sloan, Kelly M ^a   Mustacich, Robert V ^b   Eckenrode, Brian A ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RVM Scientific Inc   (United States)

^c Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast GC; Field GC MS analysis; Portable GC

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038365664     PISSN: 1086900X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fact.10011     Document Type: Article

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