Question: 3) Consider making a chromatographic column using a stainless steel tube that is 15 cm long and has an inside diameter of 4.6 mm. The

 3) Consider making a chromatographic column using a stainless steel tube

3) Consider making a chromatographic column using a stainless steel tube that is 15 cm long and has an inside diameter of 4.6 mm. The tube is packed with silicon fused core spheres that have a diameter of 5 um. The outer porous region of the spheres is 0.6 um thick and coated with C18 to act as the stationary phase. a) Assuming the particles pack the column with an efficiency 74%, how many spheres will fill the tube? b) Calculate the volume of the stationary phase in the column. You may assume this is the same volume as the porous layer of the spheres. c) Calculate the volume of the mobile phase in the column. d) Assume the mobile phase is pumped through the column at 0.75 mL/min. Calculate the mobile phase time, tm

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