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  • Weighing in on Weighing

    Monday, September 26, 2016
    Application Note
    Thomas Pertsch Steffen Gloth
    Weighing ingredients properly is a critical part of manufacturing pharmaceutical products. read more

  • Automatic Motorized Leveling of Laboratory Balances

    Friday, October 04, 2013
    Application Note
    Thomas Pertsch
    A fundamental rule for using high-resolution balances in pharmaceutical laboratories is that the instrument be level at all times. If the lab balance is not level, it cannot accurately measure objects... 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

  • Product Intelligence: Solid Phase Extraction Systems

    Monday, February 25, 2013
    Technical Article
    Solid phase extraction, or SPE, is used to isolate pollutants in water and pesticides in food, isolate drugs in blood and tissue samples, and separate proteins from a mixture, among other applications... read more

  • Increasing Throughput and Recoveries for Highly Particulate and Sediment Laden Aqueous Samples Using...

    Tuesday, October 09, 2012
    Application Note
    David Gallagher Michael Ebitson
    Samples that contain large amounts of sediment or particulates are difficult to extract using U.S. EPA Method 3535 (SPE, solid-phase extraction). While a standard 47-mm SPE disk is able to process a ... read more

  • Product Intelligence: Rheometry Buyers' Guide

    Sunday, January 01, 2012
    Technical Article
    Jeffrey M. Perkel
    This article is a valuable guide to choosing a rheometer including application, ease of use, configurability, viscosity range, and geometry type. Among the basic types discussed are a rotational ... read more

  • Focus on Columns and Consumables at Pittcon® 2011

    Tuesday, May 10, 2011
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Columns, chemicals, and consumables (CCCs) account for more than 30% of the chromatography market. read more

  • High-Content Analysis Comes Full Circle in Only Eight Years

    Monday, April 18, 2011
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    In eight short years, high-content analysis (HCA) has circled back to its roots, where many practitioners are again using personal instruments. read more

  • Providing Purge Gas for FTIR Systems

    Monday, April 18, 2011
    Technical Article
    Peter Froehlich Kim Myers
    While a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer provides a number of benefits relative to a scanning IR spectrophotometer,a significant disadvantage of an FTIR system is that the presence ... read more

  • Outsourcing Solution Preparations

    Tuesday, February 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Edwin Neas
    “Outsourcing lets companies save critical resources and spend more time on core competencies…they have used outsourcing to grow market value by billions while decreasing their book values." read more
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