C Materials Of Construction And Compliant Solvents; Preventing Contamination; Items Exposed To Solvent - Waters Xevo TQD Operator's, Overview And Maintenance Manual

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
about the most common ingredients used to 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
Trap bottle
C-2 Materials of Construction and Compliant Solvents
page C-3
Material
High-density polyethylene
PEEK™
Aluminum
Fluorinated ethylene propylene
Stainless steel
PEEK
Gold-plated aluminum/bronze
®
Viton or PTFE-encapsulated Viton
PTFE/Viton
Anodized aluminum, glass-filled
acetal, and stainless steel
PEEK
Nickel/brass
Tygon tubing
Alochromed aluminum
Toughened plate glass
Polypropylene
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