C-2 Materials of construction and compliant solvents
Preventing contamination
For information on preventing contamination, see Controlling Contamination
in LC/MS Systems (part number 715001307). You can find this document on
http://www.waters.com; click Services and Support and then Support Center.
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 page C-3 for details
about the most common ingredients used to prepare mobile phases.]
Items exposed to solvent
Item Material
Corona discharge pin mounting
contact
PEEK™
a
Gas exhaust port Aluminium
Gas tubes
FEP
b
Ion block Stainless steel
Ion block support
PEEK
a
Isolation valve Gold-plated aluminium/bronze
O-rings
Viton
®
or PTFE
c
-encapsulated Viton
Probe adjuster bellows
PTFE
c
/Viton
Probe adjuster assembly Anodized aluminium, glass filled
acetal, and stainless steel
Probe shaft
PEEK
a
Push-in gas fittings Nickel/brass
Solvent waste/leak management Tygon tubing
Source enclosure Alochromed aluminium
Source enclosure view port Toughened plate glass
Waste bottle Polypropylene
Waste bottle push-in fittings
NBR
d
, SST
e
, PBT
f
, and POM
g