ABSTRACT
Gas chromatography is not only an analytical but also physico-chemical method (see, e.g., Refs. 8, 48, 84, and 85). Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1952, R Martin mentioned how very easy it was to measure the free energy of dissolution of a given volatile compound in the stationary liquid phase by the chromatographic method and expressed his hope that the molecular forces in solutions could be successfully studied by this method [86].
