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  • Environmental and Atmospheric Monitoring Using Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (OA-...

    Friday, November 23, 2012
    Technical Article
    Douglas Baer Manish Gupta J. Brian Leen Elena Berman
    The demands of environmental and atmospheric monitoring continue to grow in terms of the number of sites and types of facilities that are being monitored (fixed, mobile, shipboard, airborne) and the ... read more

  • Pittcon® 2011 Exposition: New Product Introductions in Optical Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry

    Monday, May 09, 2011
    Technical Article
    George M. Frame II Eileen M. Skelly Frame
    Of the 979 exhibitors at Pittcon® 2011, held March 13–18 in Atlanta, GA, 115 were first-time exhibitors, and more than 200 identified themselves as having something to do with spectroscopy, from ... read more

  • A High-Purity Water System for Pharmaceuticals Testing

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011
    Application Note
    Nick Armstrong
    When Velesco Pharmaceutical Services needed high-purity water for research laboratories at its new facility in Plymouth, MI, it chose a water treatment system that would provide affordable HPLC-grade ... read more

  • A New-Generation Microwave Digestion System

    Friday, January 28, 2011
    Application Note
    Carl Chan
    Since the laboratory microwave digestion system first became commercially available in the 1980s, sample preparation has become mainstream, and the preparation of samples for atomic spectroscopy has ... read more

  • Efficient Use of Spectral Information Through Multiline Analysis in ICP-AES

    Wednesday, August 01, 2007
    Application Note
    Jean-Michel Mermet Agnès Cosnier Sophie Lebouil Sébastien Vélasquez
    The classical way to conduct the determination of an element in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) is to select a single line with adequate sensitivity and that is free... read more

  • Acidic Digestion of Soils to Determine Mercury Concentration

    Friday, June 01, 2007
    Technical Article
    Pamela F. Heckel Tim C. Keener
    Soils are notoriously heterogeneous and difficult to analyze. The authors developed a digestion method to extract mercury from clay soils using relatively inexpensive cold vapor atomic absorption ... read more

  • Lead in Vinegar: Determination and Possible Sources

    Thursday, February 01, 2007
    Application Note
    Kuria Ndung’u Sharon Hibdon A. Russell Flegal
    Exposure to contaminant lead remains a public concern because of its pervasiveness in the environment and increasing evidence of its sublethal toxicities at exposure levels lower than previously ... 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
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