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  • Recent Developments in Sulfur Analysis

    Thursday, January 17, 2013
    Application Note
    Scott Fess
    Environmental concerns to limit and minimize sulfur in crude oil and petroleum fuels are continuing to spread to many regions of the world, requiring new standard test methods and modern ... read more

  • Pittcon® 2012 Roundup of Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry

    Monday, May 07, 2012
    Technical Article
    Jeffrey M. Perkel
    This past March, some 15,754 people from 90 countries descended on Orlando, Florida, for the annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon®). read more

  • Fast and Effective LC/MS/MS Analysis of Synthetic Cannabinoids

    Wednesday, February 08, 2012
    Technical Article
    Sky Countryman Erica Pike Michael Rummel Matthew Trass Jeff Layne
    Synthetic cannabinoids are attracting increasing attention from the drug testing industry because of a sudden surge in the abuse of these compounds. read more

  • Optimizing HPLC Sample Preparation

    Monday, February 06, 2012
    Technical Article
    Caitlin Smith
    Sample preparation is an important component for analysis in high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)/ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC). This article outlines commonly used ... read more

  • Rapid, Robust, and Sensitive Detection of 11-nor-Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol-9-Carboxylic Acid in ...

    Thursday, September 01, 2011
    Technical Article
    Bernhard Rothweiler Fred Feyerherm David Engelhart Stephan Baumann
    Testing hair for drugs of abuse has been practiced for over 50 years, due in large part to the ability to detect drug use over a longer period of time, as compared to other biological matrices, ... read more

  • Identification of Volatile and Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Salt Lake Brine

    Thursday, September 01, 2011
    Technical Article
    Qianqian Song Bin Xu Xinning Li Wu Li Guimin Qian
    The deposited salts and brine from salt lakes are important industrial resources for many kinds of salts, such as edible salt, potassium, boron, lithium, and a few heavy metals. 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

  • Fritless Chromatographic Microfluidic-Based Columns for Chemical Separations

    Monday, October 27, 2008
    Technical Article
    Frank A. Gomez Attila Gaspar Shima Baghdachi Mark Goldberg Schetema Stevens Jaime Torres Marisol Salgado
    The development of microfluidic chips and devices offers a number of advantages over conventional analytical techniques, including small sample volume requirements, portability, fast sampling times, ... read more

  • Automation of Solid-Phase Extraction for Urinary Opiate Analysis

    Friday, October 24, 2008
    Technical Article
    Jeffery Hackett Michael J. Telepchak Michael J. Coyer
    The identification and confirmation of opiates extracted from biological matrices such as blood, plasma/serum, and urine may often lead to more questions than answers, as many exponents of forensic ... 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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