Isopad, Ltd., Isojacket for Argon Chromatograph

• Manufactured by Isopad, Ltd.
  Made in Borehamwood Herts, UK
• 50 in. H x 6 in. diameter
  Metal, cloth, rope
• Not on display
• Gift of the Bodenseewerk Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis, Überlingen, Germany
• Bodensee Collection
• 2002.003.002B

Description

Isojackets are external heating units that surround a pipe or tube to provide even and consistent heating.

A chromatograph separates the chemical components of a mixture. The substance moves through a column in either liquid or gas phase, and the components are separated by their affinity within the column. Gas-absorption chromatography was developed in the late 1940s, and by the mid-1960s commercial gas chromatographs dominated all forms of chromatography.