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For Your Information Chromatography N e w s l e t t e r s , Vol. 6, No. 3, is available from the PerkinElmer Corp. T h e titles of the four articles in this Oct. 1978 issue are: Determination of volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in environmental water by glass capillary column gas chromatography and electron capture detection; a variable all-glass effluent splitter for

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