During the solvent removal phase of chromatographic separation of organic mixtures using flash chromatography, the problem of vigorous silica-gel splashing is often encountered. In this article we describe a simple solution that we have devised to alleviate this problem. We constructed a splash guard adapter which results in the full recovery of the splashed silica-gel.
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Desai, Ranjit; Eskola, Philip. J. Chem. Educ.1996 73 568.
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