March 2009
Volume 41, Number 4
An application note in the March issue of American Laboratory describes an X-ray diffraction method that provides completely automated crystal structure determination. Chemical analysis methods that can accurately identify chemical agents are explained in an article on direct analysis in real time.
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Thomas L. Chester
Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) utilizes sub-2-µm-diam stationary phase particles to provide improved performance over conventional HPLC. This can be realized either in a higher ...
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John P. Helfrich
Many leading life science companies have cost reduction initiatives to eliminate the routine, nonvalueadded tasks through automation. In most regulated companies, approximately 70% of laboratory-based...
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Xavier Villarreal, Howard Barth
Overcoming bottlenecks in the laboratory,and thus saving valuable
time and money, is an important
goal for scientists.
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James A Laramée, H. Dupont Durst, J. Michael Nilles, Theresa R. Connell
The cardinal principle for an operation
involving chemical agents is to limit the potential exposure to a minimum number of personnel, for a minimum period of time, to a minimum amount of the ...
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Michael Ruf
Single-crystal crystallography provides
accurate and precise measurements of molecular dimensions in a way that no other science can begin to approach. Small-molecule crystallographers study ...
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David Coleman, Lynn Vanatta
In the last installment (Part 32, American Laboratory, Nov/Dec 2008) of this series, three detection limits (DLs) were calculated (via the 3-Sigma [3s] approach, where a is set to be 0.01) for a ...
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