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  • Pittcon 2013®: Developments in Liquid Chromatography

    Monday, May 13, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The first commercial liquid chromatograph was probably an amino acid analyzer. These ion exchange chromatographs were so specialized that they had almost no impact on chemical analysis outside of ... read more

  • Advances in Gas Chromatography Instrumentation at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The buzzwords for Pittcon® 2013 in gas chromatography instrumentation were “smaller,” “portable,” and “helium.” Despite the fact that some of the major vendors did not exhibit, others were on hand ... read more

  • What’s New in Optical Spectroscopy at Pittcon® 2013?

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Mark Fisher
    Soon after the first spectrophotometer was built, the challenge of improving it began. How could we make spectrophotometers better? Could we make them smaller, faster, or perhaps improve the ... read more

  • Advances in Mass Spectrometry at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Brian Musselman
    This has been a busy year for mass spectrometry companies and with the Triennial International Conference on Mass Spectrometry occurring last fall. This year at Pittcon®, several new high-end mass ... read more

  • Exhibition of Chromatography Columns at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    The technology and market for liquid chromatography columns continue to mature, with applications-specific columns on the rise. The chromatography columns target specific assays in the clinical ... read more

  • Awarding Innovation: The Pittcon® 2013 Editors’ Awards

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Marian Nardozzi
    Pittcon® offers many different award ceremonies for outstanding scientific achievement to members of the scientific community; however, there is only one award for innovations in instrumentation. The... read more

  • Sample Prep for LC, GC, and SFC at Pittcon® 2013

    Friday, May 10, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    At Pittcon® 2013, sample prep stood out as a major focus, perhaps because of the few advances in chromatography instrumentation. In addition, some sample preparation is spilling over into other ... read more

  • Laboratory Automation: 2013–2017

    Friday, November 23, 2012
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Laboratory automation is changing the work flow in biochemical and chemical laboratories. read more

  • 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

  • Analysis of Piperine in Peppers Using On-Line SFE-UHPLC With Photodiode Array Detection

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011
    Application Note
    Takayuki Yamaguchi Kazutoshi Kamezawa Keijin Iwaya Yasuyo Sato Toshihiko Miyaji Masao Bounoshita David J. Tognarelli Muneo Saito
    Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) is a separation technique that utilizes columns packed with microparticles (<2 µm in diameter), as provided by the xtreme liquid chromatography (x-lc™) system (jasco corp., tokyo, japan) µm="" in="" diameter),="" as="" provided="" by="" the="" xtreme="" liquid="" chromatography="" (x-lc™)="" system="" (jasco="" corp.,="" tokyo,="">... 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

  • Determination of Mercury in Slag and Cement Using a Mercury Analyzer

    Friday, January 28, 2011
    Application Note
    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. 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
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