Chemical Warfare Agent Detection in Complex Environments with Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5085, Issue , 2003, Pages 28-36

  Reichenbach, Stephen E ^a   Ni, Mingtian ^a   Kottapalli, Visweswara ^a   Visvanathan, Arvind ^a   Ledford Jr , Edward B ^b   Oostdijk, John ^c   Trap, Henk C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Zoex Corporation   (United States)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemical detection; Chemical sensing; Chemical separations; Chemical warfare agents; Comprehensive two dimensional gas chromatography; CWA; GC GC; Sarin; Soman

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; BOILING LIQUIDS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESORPTION; DIESEL FUELS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GASOLINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEPARATION;

BOILING POINT; CHEMICAL DETECTION;

CHEMICAL WARFARE;

EID: 0242635687     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.497346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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