“…For this reason also, the expulsion of air prior to desorption and transference of the sample into the helium stream is essential. Polarity and, to a greater extent, latent heat of vaporization are responsible for tailing effects in regular gas chromatography (4). Because there is no mass transfer or change of state in the empty tube experiments, the absence of tails and the identical nature of the distribution curves are to be expected.…”