Sample Preparation and Liquid Handling Reference Materials
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How to Transfer a Titration Method to a New Instrument
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: A comprehensive guide to transferring titration methods between autotitration instruments. The article outlines a five-step framework: documenting the existing method, verifying chemistry and ...
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Thermometric Titration - The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Thermometric titration (TET) is a fast, versatile method based on enthalpy change. Learn more about how it works and its advantages in this blog article. Application examples are also presented. ...
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Multiparameter Analysis in Fertilizers by Thermometric Titration
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Agriculture without fertilizers is no longer possible – without them, today’s estimated global population of 8.2 billion people could not be supported. Fertilizers provide plants with much ...
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How to Transfer Manual Titration to Autotitration
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: There are many considerations when transferring from manual titration to autotitration. This blog article discusses how to choose a titrator and sensor, the titration setup, and even method ...
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Why Titration Methods behave Differently Across Instruments
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Titration methods can yield different results across instruments due to variations in dosing control, sensor response, and endpoint evaluation. Learn how chemistry, algorithms, and instrument design ...
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A Thermal Rollercoaster: Unraveling Temperature Dependence in CVS Determinations
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Precision in PCB manufacturing demands accurate control of organic additives during copper plating. Cyclic Voltammetric Stripping (CVS) is used to quantify these additives, but temperature differences ...
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How the Updated GMP Regulations and EU Cyber Resilience Act will Affect Laboratories
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Discover how the updated GMP regulations and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will impact laboratories. Learn what changes are coming, how to prepare your equipment and software, and how Metrohm ...
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Automated Liquid Handling: The Key to Accurate and Reproducible Results
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Accurate liquid handling is critical in labs. Automation reduces errors, ensuring precise results. Learn more advantages of automated liquid handling in this blog. ...
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Edible Oil Analysis: A Guide for Beginners
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Learn what edible oils are, how they are made, how to test their quality with different analytical techniques, and about the most important analysis parameters. ...
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How to Avoid Titration Errors in Your Lab
From: Metrohm USA, Inc.Description: Have you ever wondered why your titration results are not reproducible? This blog post discusses the most common random and systematic errors that can happen during a titration. It should serve as a ...
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Hydraulic/Pneumatic Ratio Effect inside a Pressure Vessel and Why Size Matters
Description: Air pressure tanks of pneumatic pressure tanks are used in a lot of industries for varied applications. ...
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Smart Tips for Avoiding Trapping Air Bubbles in Fluids
Description: Air pressure tanks or pneumatic pressure tanks are often used on production lines to feed various industrial fluids and chemicals to spraying and dispensing systems. ...
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The Complete Guide to Fluid Management
Description: Fluids are often seen as one of the trickiest and stickiest points of the production process, placing a limitation on what can be achieved through continuous improvement and in the worst cases causing ...
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100 Years of Experience in Comminution Now Also for the Cannabis Industry
Description: The answer: a precision standard for cannabis biomass milling, with optimized and proven methods from one of the world's oldest and most respected laboratory mill manufacturers. By ensuring far ...
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Foodstuff production
Description: FOODSTUFF PRODUCTION - A CULTURE OF CONTRADICTIONS? ...
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Archimedes & the History of Density Testing
Description: The first recorded application of density measurement was for fraud detection. The density measurement concept then expanded to encompass determination of material composition and assessment of ...
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Flow Test Correlation of Size & Flow
From: Accu-GlassDescription: A customer needs a flow restrictor but only knows what liquid flow rate is needed and what pressure they will be using. Accu-Glass will develop custom Microbore glass flow restrictors with an inside ...
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Brewing Industry - Dispersion of Beer Foam Head Retaining Agents
From: Silverson Machines, Inc.Description: Ingredients such as propylene glycol alginate (PGA) may be added to beer to stabilize the foam head and to aid resistance to breakdown of foam in the presence of detergent residues or grease on the ...
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Mayonnaise Manufacture
From: Silverson Machines, Inc.Description: Mayonnaise is an oil-in-water emulsion which can contain up to 80% oil. Gums and thickeners such as starches are used in low fat products to replace the viscosity and bulking effect of the oil, to ...
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Apparent or Actual Surface Tension? Which to Use?
Description: An definition of surface tension: "The attraction force between molecules at the surface of a liquid. The force that keeps if from flying off into space". The number of different test methods suggests ...
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High Throughput Screening of Wind Turbine Gear Box Samples Utilizing the LaserNet 230 and Automatic Sample Processor (AS)
Description: The major issue for premature failure in wind turbine gearboxes is bearing failure, which leads to gearbox failure. A wind turbine gearbox will not survive if the oil is not clean and especially if ...
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Important Consideration in Viscosity Measurement of Jet and Diesel Fuels According to ASTM D1655 and ASTM D975
Description: While D7042 manufacturers claim "precision equivalent to D445" with faster run times, it is important to understand the details behind these claims to make an informed decision when considering the ...
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Fairfield-Suisun SD Digester Mixing Comparison
From: Vaughan Co., Inc.Description: Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District (FSSD) in California installed a Vaughan Rotamix® hydraulic mixing system next to an identical anaerobic digester with a 7-year-old gas mixing system. Rotamix® ...
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Fine particle study of micro-cavitational effect in high-energy rotor/stator homogenizer
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: Oil in water dispersions produced using a multiple rotor/stator in-line homogenizer mixer were characterized using Sauter mean droplet diameter and Weber number. Homogenizer design develops ...
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In-Line Dispersing Grinder Doubles Rate of Dissolution of Rubber in Styrene
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: By using an in-line dispersing grinder to promote dissolution of polybutadiene rubber in styrene at the Hanging Rock Plant of Dow Chemical USA, total time needed for dissolution has been cut by better ...
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Pigment and Plasticizer Dispersions in Half the Batching Time
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: Reversible Homogenizers used at W&F Manufacturing have cut batching times in half for their pigment and plasticizer dispersions. In cash, the time savings amount to between $1,000 and $2,000 per week. ...
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Reversible Homogenizer Deaerates Viscous Gel
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: hine & Pretty (USA) Corporation 456 Constitution Avenue, Camarillo, CA, is an integrated contract manufacturer of personal care products including creams and lotions and styling gel products. Located ...
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Reversible Homogenizer Increases Production of Creams, Lotion and Ointment
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: Commonly, the entire cream, ointment or lotion manufacturing process - heat, mix, disperse, emulsify and cool - is done in expensive jacketed kettles with anchor-style agitators and dispersion heads, ...
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Reversible Homogenizing Mixer Cuts Process Time By 30%
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: PROBLEM: Chipman, Inc., of Stoney Creek, Ontario, is a Canadian manufacturer of flowable agricultural formulations. In the manufacture of these formulations, they receive a variety of solid active ...
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Reversible Homogenizing Mixer Improves Extraction Process, Increasing Yields by 4-7%
From: ARDE Barinco, Inc.Description: Problem: A major pharmaceutical manufacturer on the east coast was having problems with the production of a pharmaceutical reagent because the volumes were too small and the yields too low. The ...
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Comminution of Silicone Rubber
Description: Many industries rely heavily on silicone rubber as a basic material. Effective for the sample preparation of the material are the FRITSCH-Mills. ...
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Inspecting Natural Rubber Analytically
Description: The production of homogenous composite samples is a prerequisite. ...
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Pigment processing: The Isolation of the Naturally Beautiful
Description: Mankind has always enjoyed enduring works of art. The particles of the pigments have always been playing a major role. For example, the oldest cave paintings still impress us today. One of the most ...
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Speed-up Your Synthesis Lab: Planetary Ball Mills As A Tool In Organic Synthesis
Description: The Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry of the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena has developed new and improved methods for synthesis strategies using Planetary Mills in ...
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Analysis of Active Components of Various Forms of Medication
Description: In the pharmaceutical technology (formerly galenics) one is occupied with the production of various pharmaceutical forms like for example tablets, pastilles or dragées. ...
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Drug Testing Via Hair Analysis
Description: In order to proof the consumption of drugs (cocaine, cannabis products, amphetamines) even after long periods of time, hair is frequently analyzed. ...
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Phytopharmaceuticals, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Natural Cosmetics
Description: Scientists, pharmacists and doctors are increasingly, systematically and more extensively occupied with the components of medical plants. These always have to be analysed. ...
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Your Cell Phone Turns Into Dust
Description: For the sample preparation for the RoHS analysis, several steps are necessary in order to achieve the desired degree of fineness. Optimal here are FRITSCH Mills. ...
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Comminution of Purple Moor-Grass
Description: Interesting for research are the absolute contents and the ratios of carbon and nitrogen in the plant material. For the determination of these values mostly carbon and nitrogen analyzers are utilized. ...
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Grinding Tarpaper and Roofing Bitumen
Description: Most people are only familiar with these materials in order to seal roofs, but what happens with this material when a building is torn down? Utilized are then the FRITSCH Cutting Mills. ...
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Quality and Process Assurance of Clean Room Concepts with the PULVERISETTE 23
Description: In the food industry the trends of the future are „Healthy Nutrition and „Convenience Products". The markets are shaped by wellness and health, as well as fitness oriented consumers which demand ...
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Sample Preparation in the Ceramics Industry for Assurance of Quality and Process Standards
Description: Clays, chamottes and ceramics are used versatile and must therefore be in accordance with different degrees of quality standards. These quality standards have especially in recent years gained in ...
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Pesticide and Antibiotics Residues in Food for Example Tomatoes
Description: Pesticides in the broader sense are considered all crop protection products and all other pesticides. These substances are applied directly onto the plant and also pass through soil along with ...
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Multiwave PRO for Pharmaceuticals Microwave-induced Oxygen Combustion Ashing and Digesting in 1 Run
From: Anton PaarDescription: 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 ...
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Biofuel - Energy Supplier of the Future?
Description: Biofuel like biodiesel, plant oil, ethanol, bio methane or the synthetic biomass- to- liquid (BtL)- fuels everyone is talking about them. They are at present the only renewable alternative in the ...
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Crushing Concrete Coarsely and Fine
Description: Concrete is a complex material, which its characteristics due to its composition and as a result of the systematic addition of additives can be adjusted very differentiated. However, this results in ...
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Planetary Ball Mills as an Instrument in Mechanochemistry
Description: One of the most significant fields of application for FRITSCH Planetary Mills is mechanochemistry. This subject is in theory, as well as in practice very wide-ranging and versatile. In the article you ...
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Processing Cocoa Beans in the Laboratory
Description: Routine quality inspections of nuts in production and trade are subject to clear regulatory requirements. The following article contains compact information about the requirements, as well as aspects ...
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Characteristics of Sand and Criteria for its Comminution
Description: Sand is a common unconsolidated sedimentary rock. The mineral composition varies. The analytical evaluation of the chemical composition and therefore the aptness for the intended uses make the ...
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Production of Mixtures on a Laboratory Scale
Description: Mixed were solid with solid substances, solid with liquid substances and liquids with solids. As solid phases mostly fine powders are used, which during the mixing process should not be further ...
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Grinding Teas - Herbal Tea, Black Tea or Green Tea
Description: An efficient sample preparation for fast, reliable and reproducible analyses results is becoming nowadays increasingly more important. Especially in the food industry is an exact sample preparation as ...
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Analysis of Drugs of Abuse by GC/MS using the Ultra Inert Inlet Liners with Wool
Description: With efficient deactivation on glass wool, the Ultra Inert liners with wool provide excellent inertness, homogeneous sample mixing and evaporation, non-volatile residue trapping, and column and ...
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Analysis of Pesticides in Food by GC/MS/MS using the Ultra Inert Liners with Wool
Description: With efficient deactivation on glass wool, the Ultra Inert liners with wool provide excellent inertness, homogeneous sample mixing and evaporation, and maximum column and detector protection for ...
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Analysis of Semivolatiles by GC/FID using the Ultra Inert Inlet Liners with Wool
Description: With efficient deactivation on glass wool, the Ultra Inert liners with wool provide superior inertness for accurate analysis of semivolatile analytes by GC/FID, homogeneous sample mixing and ...
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Evaluation of the Ultra Inert Liner Deactivation for Active Compounds Analysis by GC
Description: Endrin and DDT breakdown and active semivolatiles tests were used for the Ultra Inert liner deactivation performance evaluation. The results indicate that the Ultra Inert deactivated liners provide ...
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Determining Biochemical Oxygen Demand in Organic Waste Water (.pdf)
From: Lovibond® Tintometer®Description: Strongly loaded organic industrial waste water, i.e. from sugar- or paper-factories, need to be pre-treated before determining the BOD value. Because of the very high content of organic material in ...
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The Importance of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the Water Analysis Sector (.pdf)
From: Lovibond® Tintometer®Description: In water supplies there is often a build-up of anthropogenous additives such as pesticides, effluents and garbage, which contaminate drinking water supplies with their toxic or hormonal effects. They ...
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A Continuous On-line Generator for Trace VOC Standards in Water (.pdf)
Description: Analyzers for monitoring water quality in processor waste water streams require calibration with liquid standards. Traditional techniques for preparing these standards are cumbersome and often ...