E Materials of construction and
compatible solvents
Warning:
To avoid personal contamination with biologically hazardous, toxic, or corrosive
materials, you must address any safety issues raised by the contents of this Appendix. Doing so
confirms the integrity of the source exhaust system.
E.1 Preventing contamination
For information on preventing contamination, refer to
Controlling Contamination in LC/MS
Systems
(715001307). You can find this document on
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E.2 Items exposed to solvents
The items that appear in the following tables can be exposed to solvent. You must evaluate the
safety issues if the solvents used in your application differ from the solvents typically used with
these items. See
Solvents used to prepare mobile phases (Page 106)
for details about the most
common ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.
Table E–1: Fluidics items:
Item
Material
Leak sensor
Various
Syringe pump
HTZP (ceramic), Viton, UHMWPE, and PEEK
Select valve
RPC-10 (a type of PEEK) and 316 stainless
steel
Table E–2: Pumping block and analyzer items:
Item
Material
Pumping block rear gasket
FEPM
Pumping block front gasket
FEPM
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