Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns by Restek Corp.

Manufacturer Restek Corp.
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Rxi® fused silica capillary GC columns were designed specifically to be the best columns available, for exceptional inertness, ultra-low bleed, and reproducible retention and selectivity. In addition to outstanding performance, this combination of column characteristics assures Rxi® columns will have long lifetimes. The Restek chemists also have developed a stable, reproducible manufacturing process, so that Rxi® columns will meet your needs every time you install a new column.The Rxi®-5Sil MS ... Read more


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Average Rating: 4.7
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Great performance
Rating: 4.3

  • Application Area: Analyze fluoro compounds

"We achieve high quality of product, Good repeatability"

Review date: 11 Jul 2022 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Peak separation is excellent
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Solvent analysis

"Good product, temperature limit is higher, good separation."

Review date: 07 Feb 2022 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Auriga Research Pvt. LTD., Bangalore



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Very good in operation and software also good and easy understanding
Rating: 4.0

  • Application Area:Raw materials, Finished products R&D samples

"It meets the requirements and compliance"

Review date: 20 Nov 2021 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Shimadzu Analytical (India) Pvt. Ltd.



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Excellent low bleed column and can be used for multiple applications.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Pesticides analysis by GC-MS/MS

"Restek Rxi-5 Sil MS capillary column is very effective for trace level of multiple pesticides analysis with its unique low bleed column (Rxi) helps for detecting trace level pesticides in ppb concentration in food matrices using GC-MS/MS."

Review date: 23 Jun 2021 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Shimadzu Analytical (India) Pvt. Ltd.



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Excellent column and very useful when detecting pesticides at the ppb level.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Pesticides analysis

"Restek capillary columns are extremely good, with low bleeding at high temperatures and high ramp rates."

Review date: 02 Feb 2021 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: ION EXCHANGE (I) LTD, ANKLESHWAR



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Great to use it
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:In analysis & analytical development

"It's really value for money, it doesn't require more conditioning and we use if from last long without any complaint about it & still it gives good performance. we are totally satisfied with this product. It provide reproducible, reliable results and enhance confidation of the user too."

Review date: 20 Jul 2020 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Shimadzu Analytical India Pvt. Ltd.



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highly inert columns.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Pesticides analysis at PPB level.

"I have been using Restek GC columns for the last 5+ years. I have been extensively working on pesticide residue analysis in food matrices. The results I have got are very reproducible and there has not been any interference caused by the columns during the scan and method development. I was able to separate out cyfluthrin, cypermethrin isomeric mixture with proper chromatographic separation and reproducible results. Columns are really very robust and long lasting."

Review date: 17 Jul 2020 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Cedeac Medioambiente



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Great resolution of multiple compounds!
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Analyze hydrocarbons

"High quality and reprodible results. Great resolution of different compounds (PAHs, plaguicides, PCBs) in only 15m!"

Review date: 10 Dec 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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It works great and no downtime if the bake outs are done at the end of the day.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:GC MS analysis of isotopes in water.

"Our field is isotopes analysis on the oxygen isotopes in water. After working out a procedure to use this 30 m column in our Scion 456-GC to do water isotope comparisons with a mass spectrometer(Scion SQ); it was found to be consistent and reliable. With each batch of samples isotopic standards are run to determine the ratios of the isotopes and the different samples are analyzed and compared to the standards. By taking care to keep the column clean and regularly baked out, it is still in use after 5 years since we received it."

Review date: 15 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Member since: 2019

  • Organization: Wageningen UR



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Best GC columns ever
Rating: 4.0

  • Application Area:GC analysis

"Long lasting columns with very good inertness upon polar compounds"

Review date: 15 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns


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  • Organization: Pomona College



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Great product with low column bleed!
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Analysis of semi-volatiles extracted from a variety of matrices

"I appreciate the low column bleed at high temperatures. Restek has been my go-to company for capillary columns for over 25 years!"

Review date: 12 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Good value. Need to consistently produce good quality products.
Rating: 4.3

  • Application Area:Perfume, flavonoid, and other fatty acid analysis

"The quality of Restek GC columns used to be good. But recently, the quality has come down. Even for new columns, we see packing materials come out during blank runs. I hope Restek pay attention to quality of GC columns going forward."

Review date: 12 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: PerkinElmer



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I have used this column for 2 years now and it still functions great with no bleeding
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Analyze hydrocarbons upto C44, Terpenes, pesticides, halogenated compounds

"I am very happy with this column as I have not observed any bleeding or any other problems with it. I have obtained very reproducible results. It has been used for a wide range of applications and had no need to change the column."

Review date: 12 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: ASPIRE BIOTECH, INC



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Very good for our purposes.
Rating: 4.0

  • Application Area:Test medical grade glues

"Medical grade glues are vey hard to analyze and we find that Restek columns are best for our testing processes. Everything is very reproducable. Our only issue is that the glues wear out the columns faster than other products so we would like a more heavy usage column."

Review date: 12 Apr 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Very good!
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:GC purity analyses

"This column has been great for my analyses. Very robust and capable of higher temperatures than competitive brands. Low bleed in mass spec as well. Customer service and sales team are incredibly helpful and I always receive products from Restek quickly"

Review date: 26 Mar 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Reproducible results, quality and easy to use!
Rating: 4.7

  • Application Area:Analytical chemistry

"Reproducible results, good quality, great technical support and easy to find applications to different compounds."

Review date: 22 Mar 2019 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Texas DPS



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Great columns.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Headspace GC

"These columns perform just as expected. We use these columns every day and they hold up to our standards."

Review date: 30 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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These columns make my job easier - don't know what I would do without them.
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:GC MS analysis of multiple food analysis QA methods

"I have been working in Industry (Environmental and Food/Beverage) for 32 years and over that time period have tried many manufacturers columns for a multitude of applications. You can't beat this column for separation, ease of quick install, low bleed (non-existent for me applications), longevity - I have had columns that run daily in for over a year without loss of separation and peak quality and sensitivity. They are priced competitively and I have never had to wait for a backorder on these columns. Restek - keep up the great work and thanks for the helpful technical support over the years."

Review date: 30 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Oregon State Police



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Great, consistent results.
Rating: 4.3

  • Application Area:column for gas chromatograph

"The columns we purchase from Restek are high quality and produce excellent results with expected reproducibility. They save us time and effort because they are so consistent and the verification process is greatly reduced whenever we change a column."

Review date: 27 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Very good column. Will continue to purchase these in the future.
Rating: 4.0

  • Application Area:Analysis of unknown materials

"A very good column for with excellent separation and low bleed. It handles a wide range of samples and continues to perform well."

Review date: 27 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: University College London



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Our standard general purpose column
Rating: 4.0

  • Application Area:Biofluids analysis

"Robust column when used with integral guard column. Good resolution, low column bleed"

Review date: 26 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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  • Organization: Federal UNiv of Sergipe



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Very satisfied with the results
Rating: 4.3

  • Application Area:analyze volatile compounds in foods

"Sales representative attended very well, not only during the purchase but after-sales support"

Review date: 12 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Great results
Rating: 4.7

  • Application Area:Analysis of materials

"High quality of separations, long lifetime of capilllary column."

Review date: 12 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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100% competition "killer"
Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:multi residu gcms in food

"very low bleed and a very stable baseline behaviour. furthermore good inertnes for medium and polar compounds column to column reproducabillity is excellent."

Review date: 11 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Almost an all purpose columnn!
Rating: 4.7

  • Application Area:water analyses

"Very high quality column. In use for a lot of applications on several GCMSn systems in combination with large volume injection (until 200 ul). Very stable! Applications of Chlorobenzenes, OCB's PCB'PAH's NP herbicids, triphosphates etc. After 300 injections still complete sepration of Benzo9b) and benzo(k)antracene."

Review date: 11 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Surely great resolution and worth of money.
Rating: 4.3

  • Application Area:Analyze metabolites in biological specimen and drug chemistry

"Excellent products are being provided by Restek. I am highly satisfied."

Review date: 11 Jul 2018 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
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Rating: 5.0

  • Application Area:Carbohydrate Analysis

"This product is used for separating oxime silylated sugars by GC. "

Review date: 22 Oct 2015 | Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns
Rxi® fused silica capillary GC columns were designed specifically to be the best columns available, for exceptional inertness, ultra-low bleed, and reproducible retention and selectivity.

In addition to outstanding performance, this combination of column characteristics assures Rxi® columns will have long lifetimes. The Restek chemists also have developed a stable, reproducible manufacturing process, so that Rxi® columns will meet your needs every time you install a new column.

The Rxi®-5Sil MS stationary phase incorporates phenyl groups in the polymer backbone. This improves thermal stability, reduces bleed, and makes the phase less prone to oxidation. Rxi®-5Sil MS columns are ideal for GC-MS applications requiring high sensitivity, including use in ion trap systems.


Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns Features:

  • Engineered to be a low-bleed GC-MS column.
  • Excellent inertness for active compounds.
  • General-purpose columns—ideal for GC-MS analysis of semivolatiles, polycyclic aromatic compounds, chlorinated hydrocarbons, phthalates, phenols, amines, organochlorine pesticides, organophosphorus pesticides, drugs, solvent impurities, and hydrocarbons.
  • Temperature range: -60 °C to 350 °C.

Column Details:

  • Phase: Crossbond® 1,4-bis(dimethylsiloxy)phenylene dimethyl polysiloxane
  • Length: 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 60 m
  • ID: 0.10, 0.15, 0.18, 0.25, 0.32, 0.53 mm
  • df: 0.10, 0.15, 0.18, 0.25, 0.36, 0.50, 1.00, 1.50, 2.00 μm

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Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns by Restek Corp. product image

Rxi®-5Sil MS (Fused Silica) Columns

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4.7 / 5.0 | 27 reviews