C Materials Of Construction And Compatible Solvents; Preventing Contamination; Items Exposed To Solvents - Waters Xevo TQ-S cronos Overview And Maintenance Manual

C Materials of construction and
compatible solvents
Warning:
To avoid personal contamination with biologically hazardous, toxic, or corrosive
materials, you must address any safety issues raised by the contents of this Appendix. Doing so
confirms the integrity of the source exhaust system.
C.1 Preventing contamination
For information on preventing contamination, refer to Controlling Contamination in LC/MS
Systems (715001307). You can find this document on
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C.2 Items exposed to solvents
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
common ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.
Table C–1: 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
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Material
High-density polyethylene
PEEK
Aluminum
Fluorinated ethylene propylene
Stainless steel
PEEK
Gold-plated aluminum/bronze
Viton or PTFE-encapsulated Viton
PTFE/Viton
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