please remove me from your list before I get postal!!1 ---Edward Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Regarding O2 on a MAT 252: > > Our laboratory has been analyzing pure O2 as analyte with a MAT 252 for > more than 3 years and we have incurred no difficulties of the type you > describe. I know at least two other labs that can say the same. The only > effect attributable to O2 that I have encountered has to do with cleaning > the source. I once took the source apart for cleaning (it actually did not > need it, but that is another story). After reassembling and baking we > found that there was some adsorption of O2 that persisted for several > days. It was cured by baking with He flowing for 48 hours. I suspect that > the adsorption following cleaning would not have been such a problem with > a less reactive gas. > > -Ed Young > Earth Sciences > University of Oxford > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com