This document discusses liquid chromatography techniques. It describes liquid chromatography as using a liquid mobile phase and liquid or solid stationary phase. It then summarizes classical liquid chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography. High performance liquid chromatography uses smaller particle sizes in the stationary phase, stronger pumps, and detectors to allow for faster separations and better resolution compared to classical liquid chromatography. The document outlines the basic components of an HPLC system including the solvent delivery system, pump, injection port, analytical column, and various detector types. It also discusses different modes of liquid chromatography like normal phase and reverse phase.