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Volume 9, No. 2, The Time Is Now For Fast LC, Figure 1

Figure 1. Van Deemter’s Curves Showing How Efficiency Is Inversely Proportional to Particle Size.

The curves plot height equivalent of theoretical plate versus flow rates for 10-, 5- and 3-µm columns. Column i.d.: 4.6 mm; mobile phase: 65% acetonitrile/water; sample: t-butylbenzene. Reprinted with permission from Reference 1.

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