Nitrogen–phosphorus_detector
The nitrogen–phosphorus detector (NPD) is also known as thermionic specific detector (TSD) is a detector commonly used with gas chromatography, in which thermal energy is used to ionize an analyte.[1][2] It is a type of flame thermionic detector (FTD), the other being the alkali flame-ionization detector (AFID also known as AFD).
With this method, nitrogen and phosphorus can be selectively detected with a sensitivity that is 104 times greater than that for carbon.[citation needed]