W. G. Pye Argon Chromatograph

• ca. 1958–1962
• Manufactured by W. G. Pye
  Made in Cambridge, UK
• 60.25 in. H x 18 in. W x 16.5 in. D
  Stainless steel, metal, plastic, rubber, stone, copper
• Not on display
• Gift of the Bodenseewerk Perkin-Elmer Museum of Instrumental Analysis, Überlingen, Germany
• Bodensee Collection
• 2002.003.002A

Description

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.