If you inject your sample into the Gas Chromatography and wait several minutes but there is no peak (at all, not even an air peak), what could be the reason for this? How might you solve this problem?

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a) If you inject your sample into the Gas Chromatography and wait several minutes but there is no peak (at all, not even an air peak), what could be the reason for this? How might you solve this problem?

b) If you inject your sample into the Gas Chromatography and there is a peak from air in the syringe, but no peaks due to the expected compounds, what could be the reason for this? How might you solve this problem?

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