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  • Advantages of In-House Generation of Nitrogen for HPLC With Evaporative Light Scattering Detection

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Peter Froehlich Corky Belobraydich
    Evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD) is a universal detection technique for HPLC that provides a number of distinct advantages over other commonly employed detection methods such as UV-VIS ... read more

  • Confidence Up Close

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Aubrey Lambert
    The combined pressures of continuing miniaturization, higher packing densities, and rigorous quality assurance means that the physical size of particles capable of adversely affecting industrial ... read more

  • Integrating Informatics and High-Content Screening to Find a Cure for Spinal Cord Injury: Selecting ...

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Vance Lemmon William Buchser Don Crossett
    The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, includes a laboratory devoted to high-content screening (HCS) of neurons. The laboratory is run by Vance... read more

  • Direct Determination of Trace Elements in Solid Samples by DC Arc With Emphasis on the Analysis of ...

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Maura Mahar Garry Kunselman Peter Brown Paul Dalager Peter Perzl
    Fast, direct, quantitative elemental analyses of solids that are difficult to digest are hallmarks of the DC Arc technique. The earliest DC Arc instruments relied on photographic plate detectors. ... read more

  • Hyphenation: The Next Step in Thermal Analysis

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Kevin P. Menard Richard Spragg Greg Johnson Craig Sellman
    Thermal analysis, like most mature technologies, sees mostly incremental increases in its capabilities, such as the introduction of modulated temperature techniques in the early 1990s or the ... read more

  • Thermosets: How to Avoid Incomplete Curing

    Friday, January 01, 2010
    Technical Article
    Steve Sauerbrunn Rudolf Riesen
    Oligomers and monomers that react and polymerize to form a rigid network with elevated temperatures are called thermosets. Thermosetting oligomers have been used for several decades to produce ... read more

  • Food Texture Analysis

    Saturday, May 01, 2010
    Application Note
    Richard D. Brown
    Texture testing is a well-established technique for evaluating the mechanical and physical properties of raw ingredients, food structure, and designs, and for pre- and post-quality control checks. ... 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

  • 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

  • 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
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