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  • Sample Processing at Pittcon® 2014

    Tuesday, May 06, 2014
    Application Note
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The tenfold increase in speed for the analytics (GC, HPLC, and SFC [supercritical fluid chromatography], all with MS) over the last decade has shifted the choke point in many workflows from analytics ... read more
  • A Novel Sample Preparation Method for Complete Digestion of Complex Pharmaceutical Matrices

    Friday, June 07, 2013
    Application Note
    Reynhardt Klopper Eric Fox
    For more than 100 years, the USP General Chapter <231> concomitant visual test was the standard method for the determination and quantification of heavy metal impurities present in pharmaceutical products ... read more
  • Product Intelligence: Mercury Analyzers in the Laboratory

    Wednesday, March 20, 2013
    Technical Article
    The determination of mercury levels is vital in many industries, for example, in the chemical industry, i.e., mercury levels in effluents, and in the food and environmental industries. Available ... read more
  • A Microwave Sample Preparation Procedure for the Commercial Testing Lab

    Friday, February 15, 2013
    Technical Article
    Sumedh Phatak
    Commercial testing laboratories that offer services for trace metals analysis have realized a variety of potential growth opportunities given the current passing of various local and international ... read more
  • General Laboratory Equipment: Innovation Showcase

    Monday, May 09, 2011
    Technical Article
    Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
    Each year, manufacturers and distributors flesh out many innovations for the laboratory, ranging from simple accessories to large, more complex instrumentation. read more
  • New Products at Pittcon® 2011

    Thursday, March 10, 2011
    Application Note
    Jeanely Hunt, MS, MBA
    The following includes some of the latest advances in laboratory instrumentation debuting at Pittcon® 2011. read more
  • Breaking the Sample Preparation Bottleneck With a New Approach to Microwave Digestion

    Monday, November 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Tim Michel
    Closed-vessel microwave digestion is widely recognized as the most effective technique for the digestion of samples for metals analysis by graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA), inductively ... read more
  • Mercury and Arsenic Speciation Analysis by IC-ICP-MS

    Wednesday, September 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Laura Reyes H.M. Skip Kingston Andrea Wille Jürgen Knöll Alfred Steinbach
    Ion chromatography (IC) with conductivity detection has been used successfully to determine anionic and cationic substances as well as polar compounds such as amines and organic acids. However, in ... read more
  • Determination of Total Mercury in Fish and Biological Tissue Using a Direct Mercury Analyzer

    Friday, April 02, 2010
    Application Note
    Johan Nortje
    Mercury is naturally present in the earth and enters the air and water through the burning of fossil fuels, discharge of industrial waste, and use of pesticides. Through this redistribution, mercury ... read more
  • Increased Throughput in Method 8270 Analysis

    Monday, January 01, 2007
    Application Note
    William D. Goodman Frank DeLorenzo
    Method 8270 is a GC-MS method created by the U.S. EPA Office of Solid Waste for the analysis of semivolatile organics by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. read more
  • Automated Chemical Ionization in GC-MS

    Monday, January 01, 2007
    Application Note
    Chris Sandy Jean-Francois Garnier Bernhard Rothweiler Fred Feyerherm Sihem Ben Mahmoud Harry F. Prest
    Gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection using chemical ionization (CI) has demonstrated great utility in a wide variety of application areas ranging from forensics to environmental to ... read more
  • Dielectrophoretic Force Microscopy

    Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    Application Note
    Al M. Hilton Brian P. Lynch Garth J. Simpson
    Dielectrophoresis (DEP), the force exerted on a polarizable particle in a nonuniform electric field, has been used with great success in recent years to manipulate and separate cells and biomolecules. read more
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