Preventing Contamination; Items Exposed To Solvent - Waters Xevo TQ-S micro Overview And Maintenance Manual

C Materials of Construction and Compliant Solvents

Preventing contamination

For information on preventing contamination, refer to Controlling Contamination in
LC/MS Systems (part number 715001307). Visit http://www.waters.com.

Items exposed to solvent

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 normally
used with these items. See
prepare mobile phases.
Items exposed to solvent:
Item
Autotune reservoirs
Corona discharge pin mounting contact
Gas exhaust port
Gas tubes
Ion block
Ion block support
Isolation valve
O-rings
Probe adjuster bellows
Probe adjuster assembly
Probe shaft
Push-in gas fittings
Solvent waste/leak management
Source enclosure
Source enclosure view port
Drip trays
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Material
High-density polyethylene
PEEK™
Aluminum
Fluorinated ethylene propylene
Stainless steel
PEEK
Gold-plated aluminum/bronze
Viton
PTFE/Viton
Anodized aluminum, glass-filled acetal,
and stainless steel
PEEK
Nickel/brass
Tygon tubing
Alochromed aluminum
Toughened plate glass
Aluminium
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or PTFE-encapsulated Viton