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New Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum XLS THE LEADING EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR ANALYTICAL SCIENCE FEBRUARY/MARCH 2010 - VOLUME 35 ISSUE 2 


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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, the world leader in serving science, introduces the new Thermo Scientific TSQ Quantum XLS, a triple quadrupole gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) system designed to offer maximum precision, sensitivity and laboratory productivity for quantitative GC-MS analysis. Featuring the innovative DuraBrite™ IRIS high sensitivity ion source, the TSQ Quantum XLS provides high sensitivity in the low femtogram range, achieves higher quantitative precision at trace levels and increases productivity. Equipped with optional column backflush solutions the new TSQ Quantum XLS enables high throughput laboratories to shorten analysis times and run more samples.


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LC-NMR – Who in Their Right Mind Would Even Consider it?


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