In addition to browsing through exhibits of the latest tools of the trade, the 30,000 scientists expected to attend will have the option of sitting in on their choice of nearly 1,600 technical papers pertaining to analytical chemistry and spectroscopy. The Atlanta meeting is sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference, a volunteer-run nonprofit organization that is cosponsored by the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP).
An example of recent innovations in spectroscopic analysis of chemical species separated by gas chromatography that scientists can expect to see in Atlanta next month are new element-specific spectroscopic detectors. GC permits rapid and efficient separation of a wide variety of chemical compounds. But in spite of the power of GC as an analytical technique, some compounds that are composed of different elements may be difficult to distinguish.
To date, this problem has been addressed by selectively tuning ...
