B Materials Of Construction And Compliant Solvents; Preventing Contamination; Items Exposed To Solvent - Waters Quattro Premier XE Operator's Manual

Preventing contamination

For information on preventing contamination, refer to Controlling
Contamination in LC/MS Systems (part number 715001307). You can find
this document on http://www.waters.com; click Services and Support and then
Support Center.

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" on page B-3
ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.
Items exposed to solvent
Item
APPI lamp drive assembly:
Mounting shaft
Repeller electrode
Insulator
Lamp window
Autotune vials
Corona discharge pin mounting
contact
Gas exhaust port
Gas tubes
Ion block
Ion block support
Isolation valve
O-rings
Probe adjuster bellows
B-2 Materials of Construction and Compliant Solvents
"Solvents used to
for details about the most common
Material
Stainless steel
Stainless steel
PEEK
Magnesium fluoride
High density polyethylene (HDPE)
PEEK
Aluminium
Fluorinated ethylene propylene
(FEP)
Stainless steel
PEEK™
Gold-plated aluminium/bronze
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Viton or PTFE-encapsulated Viton
PTFE/Viton