Schlenk Line Cold Trap: What a −40 °C Chiller Can and Cannot Replace

Swapping liquid nitrogen for a chiller-cooled trap sounds simple until you look at solvent vapor pressures. What a −40 °C trap really catches, why it cannot condense oxygen, and how to combine it with a colder trap on a Schlenk line.

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