Abstract
The use of gas chromatographic (gle) methods for purposes of identification and quantitation of pesticides1 and their residues within the required accuracy and detection limits is directly related to the development of detectors which are selective and sensitive to the chemical structure, elemental constitution, or functional groups. Among those detectors widely used in routine gle analysis of pesticides are the electron-capture (EC) detector, the Dohrmann microcoulometer, the Coulson conductivity detector, the flame photometric detector, and seyeral different designs of thermionic flame ionization detectors. All of these detectors show selective detection properties. Selective detection facilitates the accomplishment of qualitative and quantitative analysis, particularly at very low sample concentration levels in the presence of concomitant endogenous substances differentiating compounds with similar or the same retention time.
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Maier-Bode, H., Riedmann, M. (1975). Gas chromatographic determination of nitrogen-containing pesticides using the nitrogen flame ionization detector (N-FID). In: Gunther, F.A., Gunther, J.D. (eds) Residue Reviews. Residue Reviews, vol 54. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9857-1_5
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