Apiezon

Apiezon

(ˌæpɪˈeɪzɒn)
adj
(Elements & Compounds) trademark designating any of a number of hydrocarbon oils, greases, or waxes, characterized by a low vapour pressure and used in vacuum equipment
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The air samples will be collected by the highly sensitive procedure of trapping them in refined Apiezon L collectors above 37[degrees]C (to avoid water-vapor collection), and will be analyzed with the gas-chromato-graphic technique.
The GC-ECD columns employed were a Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, CA) Ultra II 5% phenylmethyloctadecylsilyl-bonded (DB-5) fused silica (25 m, 0.33 tam film thickness, 0.25 mm inner diameter) capillary column and a fused silica Apiezon L (30 m, 0.25 [micro]m film thickness, 0.25 mm inner diameter) column.
Glass Wheaton jars (30-[cm.sup.3]) were annealed at 300 [degrees] C, sealed with red rubber Wheaton septa that had been boiled for 2 h, and then evacuated and sealed with Apiezon N grease.