American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series, p. 95-112, 1999
DOI: 10.1021/bk-1999-0731.ch008
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The performance of the evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) in the analysis of polyethers is critically evaluated with respect to quantitative reliability. A comparison of three different types of instruments with a different design shows, that all of them do not fulfil the expectations of chromatographers and the promises of producers: their response depends quite strongly on mobile phase composition. This problem can be overcome by combination of the ELSD with a density detector.