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  • Best Practices for Circulating Baths When Measuring Viscosity Temperature Profiles

    Friday, September 29, 2017
    Application Note
    Robert G. McGregor
    Best practices are given to ensure that bath performance meets the laboratory's needs for precise temperature control. read more

  • Comparative QC Test Methods for Toothpaste Consistency

    Tuesday, September 27, 2016
    Application Note
    Robert McGregor
    Important quantitative data can be obtained in the study of viscosity by measuring the consistency of toothpaste, i.e., thickness, ease of handling and ability to retain position, and observing the ... read more

  • How Do You Evaluate “Flowability”? Buttermilk Ranch vs Blue Cheese

    Monday, November 24, 2014
    Application Note
    Robert G. McGregor Eric Chiang Stephanie Shepard
    A common request from food manufacturers is to come up with a faster and more definitive test for flowability of salad dressings. read more

  • Advancements in Instrumentation for Viscosity Measurements

    Wednesday, August 28, 2013
    Technical Article
    Robert G. McGregor
    The electronics revolution within the instrumentation industry has continued at an extraordinary pace, as can be seen with the many recent improvements in display technology and “smart” operating ... read more

  • Viscosity Measurements as a Sensitive Method for Product Shelf-Life Testing

    Monday, August 27, 2012
    Application Note
    David J. Moonay
    Companies that create personal care products such as cosmetics often perform shelf-life testing to determine stability. read more

  • Small-Scale Vane Rheometry

    Tuesday, August 02, 2011
    Application Note
    David Moonay
    Vane rheometry continues to become more well-known and popular. read more

  • The Double Life of Structured Fluids

    Sunday, August 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Neil Cunningham Bob McGregor
    The products we stir, pump, spread, pour, and spray are usually thought of as liquids. Surprisingly, however, it can be demonstrated that they live a quiet double life as liquids when observed,but ... read more

  • Calorimetry: Getting the Winning Combination

    Wednesday, July 18, 2007
    Technical Article
    Ed Sullivan
    Ultrasensitive calorimetric instruments for measuring very small heats of reaction at constant temperature (isothermal titration calorimetry [ITC]) and small heat effects induced by temperature (... read more

  • Stability of Salicylic Acid and Magnesium Stearate by DSC

    Saturday, April 01, 2006
    Application Note
    Steven Sauerbrunn Lloyd MacPherson
    The first step in developing effective pharmaceutical formulations is the discovery of the active agent. read more

  • A Multifrequency Temperature-Modulated Technique For DSC

    Sunday, January 01, 2006
    Application Note
    Markus Schubnell Christoph Heitz Thomas Hütter Steven Sauerbrunn Juergen E.K. Schawe
    In conventional differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), a sample is subjected to a temperature program with a constant heating rate. As a result, the DSC instrument delivers an output signal, which, ... read more

  • A High-Sensitivity Sensor for DSC

    Friday, August 05, 2005
    Application Note
    Rudolf Riesen Blaine Weddle
    A dramatic increase in sensitivity at low signal noise without a significant loss in signal resolution has been achieved with the HSS7 high-sensitivity sensor. read more

  • Multicapillary Columns for Chromatography

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Yuri P. Belov Marina M. Ulyanova Vladimir N. Sidelnikov
    The principles and theory of high-speed capillary chromatography have been known since the 1960s. To realize the maximum speed capabilities, it is necessary to use capillaries with a diameter of ... read more

  • Rapid Testing of Toxic Chemicals

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Nathalie Boucher Lucie Lorrain Marie-Eve Rouette Elisabeth Perron Nancy Déziel Louis Tessier François Bellemare
    The measurement of chlorophyll fluorescent signals from photosynthetic enzyme complexes (PEC) has becomeone of the most powerful indicators for ecophysiologists. read more

  • Miniaturized FTIR for Maximized Productivity

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Application Note
    Ken Fredeen John S. Seelenbinder Mark L. Norman
    In today’s fast-paced business environment, many companies are under pressure to improve their productivity. This is especially true in the pharmaceutical industry, where reducing time-to-market ... read more

  • LC-MS With Simultaneous Electrospray and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization

    Tuesday, March 01, 2005
    Technical Article
    Wayne P. Duncan Patrick D. Perkins
    Today, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization (LC-ESI-MS) is increasingly being used as the technique of choice for high-throughput pharmaceutical analysis. read more
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