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  • The Myths and Truths of Measuring Pure Water

    Monday, November 07, 2016
    Application Note
    Gayle Gleichauf Kim Knepper
    Techniques such as liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry require ultrapure water (UPW) for trace-level analysis. read more

  • Trace-Gas Analysis With Cantilever-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    Monday, July 25, 2016
    Application Note
    Jaakko Lehtinen Veli-Matti Kittilä Aleksandra Karimaa Ismo Kauppinen
    Photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) is based on the conversion of optical energy to thermal energy. read more

  • Methane—A Simple Gas with Complex Problems

    Tuesday, April 29, 2014
    Technical Article
    Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
    Natural gas (NG), which is 90+% methane, heats half of America’s households and fuels many important industrial processes including production of electricity, fertilizer, and polymers. NG is collected... read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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