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If the history of scientific developments were to be investigated, it would be found that many are the result of accidental inventions and that the number of significant developments which resulted from logical, theoretical considerations or were based on systematic outlines drawn up prior to the actual development is very small. It is interesting to note that both gas-liquid partition chromatography and the application of open tubular columns in gas chromatography are the result of such considerations. Martin and Synge, in 1941, in describing the method of liquid-liquid partition chromatography’ predicted the possibility of substituting gas for liquid as the mobile phase; similarly, open tubular columns are the result of Golay’s theoretical consideration of the behavior of packed columns.
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Ettre, L.S. (1965). Introduction. In: Open Tubular Columns in Gas Chromatography. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0688-7_1
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