Waters ACQUITY - Items Exposed to Solvent

Exhaust tubing
API gas connection
Source exhaust connection
Holding screws
Convoluted liquid waste tubing
Blanking fitting
Unused source exhaust connection
Note: The assembly cover is depicted as transparent to reveal the tubing connections.
C.4.1
Items exposed to solvent
The items that appear in the following table can be exposed to solvent. You must evaluate the
compatibility issues if the solvents used in your application differ from the solvents usually used
with these items. See Solvents used to prepare mobile phases for details about the ingredients
used most commonly to prepare mobile phases.
Table C–5: Items exposed to solvent (KAB)
Item Material
Gas exhaust port Aluminium
Gas tubes FEP (fluorinated ethylene propylene)
Ion block Stainless steel
Ion block support PEEK (polyetheretherketone)
O-rings Viton or PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene)-encapsulated Viton
Solvent waste/leak management Tygon tubing
Source enclosure Aluminium
Waste bottle Polypropylene
Waste bottle push-in fittings NBR (nitrile butadiene rubber), SST (stainless steel), PBT
(polybutylene terephthalate), and POM (polyoxymethylene)
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