Preventing Contamination; Items Exposed To Solvent - Waters Xevo TQ MS Operator's, Overview And Maintenance Manual

B 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
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 typically used with these items. See
prepare mobile phases" on page 213
ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.
Items exposed to solvent:
Item
Autotune reservoirs
Corona discharge pin mounting
contact
Gas exhaust port
Ion block assembly
Ion block screws
Ion block support
Isolation valve
O-rings
Probe adjuster bellows
Probe adjuster assembly
Probe shaft
Pumping block
Solvent waste/leak management
Source enclosure
Source enclosure view port
Trap bottle
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"Solvents used to
for details about the most common
Material
High-density polyethylene
PEEK™
Stainless steel
Stainless steel and PEEK
Gold-plated stainless steel
PEEK
Stainless steel and PEEK
®
Viton or PTFE-encapsulated Viton
Viton
Anodized aluminium, glass filled
®
acetal, Xylan , and stainless steel
PEEK
Alochromed aluminium and Xylan
Tygon tubing
Alochromed aluminium
Toughened plate glass
Polypropylene