AdBlue®, also known as DEF, is an aqueous urea solution. It lowers nitrogen oxides in diesel emissions. International standards demand that refractive index be measured for the determination of...

Glycerine is a colorless, odorless, hygroscopic and sweet-tasting viscous liquid, derived from both natural and petrochemical feedstocks. Its use in industry is manifold and extensive: it is used in...

Specialty chemicals, or chemical additives, are rapidly becoming a trillion dollar industry and are used in a wide range of industrial sectors, including energy, cosmetics, detergents, food,...

The Penetrometer PNR 12 is suitable for consistency measurements required in the food industry. Various accessories and test kits according to the AOCS and the Unilever method are available for edible...

Beer is an extraction of malted barley ("malt") in water, flavoured with hops and fermented with yeast. Malt is produced from barley in the so-called "malthouse" or "malting", which may be a part of a...

Particle suspensions often contain more than one size of particle. However, many particle analyzers cannot resolve particle mixtures, instead they detect an average of all sizes. The Litesizer™...

Nowadays, the synthesis of nanomaterials becomes more and more important, since nano structured materials can assist anywhere in daily life. The application range reaches from paints/dyes, sunscreen,...

Elemental contaminants in pharmaceuticals (heavy metals, metalloids) can have many origins. Any material or equipment used before, during and after the production, like raw materials, pharmaceutical...

n nanoparticle suspensions that will be used in ceramics, particle size and stability are of vital importance. Suspension stability is essential to ensure that the particles to stay in suspension, and...

ASTM D92 Appendix X1 describes a technique to prevent the surface skin formation when testing the flash point of asphalts with an open cup flash point tester like CLA 5....

Polarimeters are essential in drug quality control to ensure the enantiomeric purity and therefore efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs....

For those of you who work with any analytical/lab or process instruments, you know that staying in compliance with global regulations has become burdensome in the past decade. Everyone is fixated on...

Three recent fiery derailments of trains transporting crude oil from the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota have attracted the attention of the federal government as well as the petroleum...

Ionic liquids are employed as powerful, environmentally neutral solvents and as electrically conducting fluids. Due to exact viscosity determination with the Lovis 2000 M/ME microviscometer essential...