C 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.
C.1 Preventing contamination
For information on preventing contamination, refer to
Controlling Contamination in LC/MS
Systems
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C.2 Items exposed to solvents
The items that appear in the following table 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 172)
for details about the most
common ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.
Table C–1: Items exposed to solvent:
Item
Material
Autotune reservoirs
High-density polyethylene
Corona discharge pin mounting contact
PEEK
Gas exhaust port
Aluminum
Gas tubes
Fluorinated ethylene propylene
Ion block
Stainless steel
Ion block support
PEEK
Isolation valve
Gold-plated aluminum/bronze
O-rings
Viton or PTFE-encapsulated Viton
Probe adjuster bellows
PTFE/Viton
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