“…The cell is a cylinder with windows of calcium fluoride, zinc selenide or zinc sulphide and the restrictor is connected to the outlet (Shafer and Griffiths, 1983;Olesik et al, 1984;Hughes and Fasching, 1985;Johnson et al, 1985;French and Novotny, 1986;Morin et al, 1986;Wieboldt et al, 1988;. The advantage of an on-line system is that chromatograms based on the total IR absorbance can be reconstructed, using the Gram-Schmidt algorithm.…”