AbstractFive porous glasses, manufactured by Corning, reputed to have very narrow pore size distributions, have been characterized by mercury porosimetry, nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherms, and electron microscopy. The characteristics of these glasses as packing materials in gel permeation chromatography have been determined. Using polystyrene solutes and toluene solvent at room temperature, the glasses in series combination of columns are capable of separating molecular weights from a few thousand to several million. These glasses are compared with other available materials for column packings in gel permeation chromatograph
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