Dear Willi and others, the post scriptum in your posting triggered my interest since we are apparently suffering from CO+ peaks where no CO2 should be present. We are measuring N2 at fairly low concentrations (1000ppm) with high O2 (50%) but N2O, CO2 etc should be eliminated by our chemical trap/LN2 trap sequence in a GasBench-like setup. Do I correclty gather from your posting that CO2 (and CO?) could be formed although no C is present in the sample? Sounds mysterious to be but could explain our problems (which also dissapear when removing O2 from the sample). Thanks, Jens