This invention is about metal tubing/frit applicable in liquid
chromatography and a chromatography column manufactured by using the
same. In detail, this invention is about manufacturing the metal
tubing/frit by treating a powdered inorganic oxide such as silica,
alumina, zirconia, and titania with a strong base, drying it with some
humidity included, scrubbing it into powders, putting it in the tip of a
chromatographic metal tubing at a proper depth, and by sintering the
powders to form a durable sintered frit on the inner wall.This invention
is also about a liquid chromatographic column manufactured by installing
the metal tubing/frit's with a sintered end frit at the column inlet and
outlet unions and by placing the cylinder-like column main body tubing
packed with a stationary phase between the unions.The metal tubing/frit
manufactured according to the description above is not placed inside the
column as in the conventional column design, thus it is easily replaced
and fixed without disassembling the column, and the column of this design
can displace the conventional microcolumn of complicated production
process and high cost.