English to Polish Science Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng

In the ice-water-jacketed separation chamber, the surface of the liquid was swept by a continuous flow of argon sample gas, which carried the osmium tetroxide vapor to the ICP ionizing torch. The ice-water condenser removed most of the water vapor that would have been otherwise transported along with the OsC4, thus the dry-to-semidry torch environment.

Since both apparatus generated a dry-torch environment, and required identical argon gas flows, the optimum operating conditions determined by continuous flow were directly applied to the discrete batch sparging.