Patent ID: 8647480

Claim:
An apparatus for carrying out an isotope ratio analysis of C, N, S, O, H, or Cl from organic compounds, comprising: a device for carrying out electrolysis for the purpose of producing a substance to be analyzed or a pre-product for the substance from a liquid phase ( 29 ), wherein the substance or at least a part of the substance is contained in a liquid phase, the liquid phase is subject to the electrolysis, and, in the process, the substance or the pre-product for the substance is formed, and wherein the device for carrying out electrolysis comprises a channel ( 46 ) for the liquid phase ( 29 ), the channel having channel walls parts of which are simultaneously also surfaces of electrodes ( 38 , 39 ), with a ratio of length to volume of the channel, specified in mm/mm 3 , of >100.