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In gas chromatography (GC), why do we use a FAME standard instead of an alkane standard...

In gas chromatography (GC), why do we use a FAME standard instead of an alkane standard and how can we still use this to calculate a retention index?

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If you use FAME polyethylene glycol column, 30 meters or 100 meters with temperature ramping starting from 50 oC to 225 oC with 3 oC increase per minute. Phenolic groups can be detected but not on the FAME column, but RTX5 should do the job for that using GC-MS.

Nitrogen content will be best estimated using the Kjeldahl apparatus.

The main advantage of FAME standard over alkane standard is that FAME is more polar than the alkane.

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