January 2011
Volume 43, Number 1
This issue of American Laboratory features application notes on the use of 2D LC to characterize functionalized polyolefins, the role of viscometers in the control of transformer aging, and use of a mercury analyzer for the determination of mercury in cement and slag.
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Table of Contents
Anton Ginzburg, Tibor Macko, Robert Brull
Functionalized polyolefins, such as copolymers of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), are a commercially important polymer commodity.
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Armin Hofmann
High-power transformers are some of the most important elements in the supply of energy.
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Sang-Ho Nam, Yu-Na Kim, Jin-Su Na, Keun-Hyeok Yang
Mercury is one of the most toxic elements in the environment. Humans are exposed to mercury through the inhalation of mercury vapor, ingestion of drinking water, and consumption of fish.
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Frank Higgins, Alan Rein
The requirement to ensure the quality of incoming raw materials as well as finished products in the food, drug, and cosmetics industries is crucial, and FTIR spectroscopy is widely used for this ...
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Srinivasa Rao, Kelly J. Flook, Charanjit Saini, Maria Rey, Andy Woodruff, Jim Thayer, Yury Agroskin, Christopher Pohl
Over the last decade, monolith technology has progressed from a promising approach conceived by Fréchet, Švec, Huber, and others to a well-developed separation tool.
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Michael Lichtenauer, Stefanie Nickl, Konrad Hoetzenecker, Andreas Mangold, Andreas Mitterbauer, Stefan Hacker, Matthias Zimmermann, Hendrik Jan Ankersmit
Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), a buffer solution commonly used in many biological research fields, contains monobasic potassium phosphate, sodium chloride, and dibasic sodium phosphate.
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Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
Monday, November 29, 2010
The history of man looking for an instrument to view objects too small to be seen by the naked eye dates back hundreds of years. In 1665, Robert Hooke first observed “cells” when looking at a sliver ...
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David Coleman, Lynn Vanatta
The previous article (American Laboratory, Oct 2010) left off with two interesting questions: 1) How does an analyst decide whether a positive response for a blank is low enough to be ignored? and 2) ...
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