Increasingly stringent requirements for ''high-throughput'', ''mass sp
ectrometry compatible'', and ''environmentally correct'' molecular sep
arations boost the popularity of pressurized fluids technologies, whet
her or not these fluids are implemented in conditions academically def
ined as supercritical or subcritical. At Pittcon'98, this was particul
arly true for laboratory-scale preparative work: off-line sample prepa
ration for analytical purposes and chromatographic purification.