How to Use chromatography in a Sentence

chromatography

noun
  • The structure of the battery is formed from a sheet of chromatography paper, divided into a grid of creases.
    — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
  • Labs in those days used lots of elaborate liquid chromatography and other equipment that had to be washed and sterilized by hand, so his was an important job.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • But for the liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry portion of the research, Longin did have to filter the beer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The process here begins with putting samples of real whiskey, wine or sake into a machine that performs a process known as gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The scientists would pick up a cooler full of frozen wastewater samples, thaw them, and analyze them using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
    — Gene Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • Each product was analyzed three times for cannabinoid contents using high-performance liquid chromatography.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
  • Parris Goebel’s energetic chromatography is used to great effect, bringing energy to the proceedings from the very first scene.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Eiseman says studying consumer habits and working closely with brands year-round informs their work as ersatz therapists, offering a bit of chromatography to cure the world’s pandemic blues.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The technology the pilot plant will use to separate and concentrate rare earth elements is called ion exchange and continuous ion chromatography.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • Sending urine to a laboratory, which uses gas or liquid chromatography to render results more accurately, can cost thousands of dollars.
    — Colton Wooten, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • After dissecting the sharks in the lab, the team tested muscle and liver tissue using a standard technique called liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry.
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024
  • Gas chromatography then separated the chemical mix into its component parts, providing the researchers with an exact readout of the chemicals contributing to the smell of the pages.
    — Jessica Wapner, Newsweek, 1 May 2017
  • Kalamazoo was the only site with specialized chromatography equipment that could produce the ingredient, a special fatty compound called ionizable cationic lipid, at large scale.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • In this case, the company used ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography–accurate mass-time of flight mass spectrometry analysis, and consulted with an ethnobotanist.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Using high-resolution mass spectroscopy and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography, researchers carefully tested the hairs.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Commercial labs did not have the protocol to detect such small traces, so DiGiulio and his colleagues devised new procedures, using high-performance liquid chromatography, to detect it.
    — Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2016
  • Waters was a pioneer in liquid chromatography, a technique for separating and isolating the chemical components in a liquid mixture so they can be accurately measured.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
  • So Jeffrey Walterscheid, then a toxicologist at the institute, used a test known as liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to pinpoint loperamide as the culprit.
    — Catherine Saint Louis, New York Times, 10 May 2016
  • The lessons will cover effervescence (bubbles), chromatography (a chemical separation technique), liquids, and Newton’s laws of motion.
    — Mika McKinnon, Smithsonian, 22 Jan. 2018
  • On a computer, Krause pulled up a chromatography analysis, which separates mixtures into individual components.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Each sample was then analyzed with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and cafestol and kahweol levels were measured.
    — New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In later research of other ancient brews, pottery vessels and shards were analyzed using infrared spectroscopy, gas and liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and other instruments searching for clues of the most likely ingredients.
    — Todd Pitock, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2015
  • Purification typically involves using techniques like short-path distillation or column chromatography to remove any remaining impurities or byproducts from the extract.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Lindsey and colleagues used high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to assess molecular makeup of soluble compounds like caffeine and chlorogenic acids.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Today, manufacturers can employ advanced processes like distillation and chromatography to extract higher quantities of pure delta 8 THC from hemp or cannabis plants.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2023
  • In recent years, the emphasis has shifted to alternative methods, such as high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, colorimetry, or spectrophotometry.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The extent of their cocaine contamination was quantitated via gas chromatography/mass spectrometry or liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Those machines, called gas-chromatography mass-spectrometers or GC-MS, can analyze the air to discover thousands of different molecules known as volatile organic compounds.
    — Andrea Soltoggio, Smithsonian, 12 June 2018
  • That venom product could then be separated into individual components and identified using gel electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
  • The University of Virginia team tested the mushroom products in October 2023 using liquid chromatography.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 18 July 2024

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