A wide classification of instruments that are used to analyze material samples, or their components, and record data specific to the application.
Analytical Instruments Categories
Calorimeters and Thermal Analyzers
Calorimeters and thermal analyzers contain a heat source that can deliver a heat flux, at a distinct temperature, into a sample, and a temperature-measuring device that can read the resultant change in temperature.
Conductivity and Resistivity Meters
Conductivity meters, dissolved solids meters, and resistivity meters are analytical instruments that measure the conductivity, dissolved solids, and/or resistivity of a liquid sample.
Conductivity Electrodes
Conductivity electrodes are devices that measure the salinity and conductivity of water samples.
Density and Specific Gravity Instruments
Density and specific gravity instruments are meters used to determine density and specific gravity.
Dissolved CO2 Instruments
Dissolved CO2 instruments are analytical devices that measure the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) dissolved in a liquid sample such as water. They typically include a submerged probe that is covered by a thin organic membrane.
Dissolved Oxygen Meters
Dissolved oxygen meters are analytical instruments that are used to measure the amount of oxygen dissolved in a liquid sample.
Dissolved Oxygen Sensors
Dissolved oxygen sensors are used to measure the amount of oxygen dissolved in a unit volume of water. In water quality applications, such as aquaculture (including fish farming) and wastewater treatment, the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) must be kept high.
Durometers
Durometers are instruments used for measuring the indentation hardness of rubber, elastomers, plastics and foam materials.
Environmental Test Chambers and Rooms
Environmental test chambers and rooms are used to ensure the reliability of industrial products, especially electronic items, through prolonged exposure to one or more environmental parameters.
Gas Instruments
Gas instruments detect, monitor or analyze gases present in an environment.
Geophysical Instruments
Geophysical instruments are used for geological study, including rock and soil mechanics, core analysis and surveys of the earth.
Hardness Testers
Hardness testers measure a material's resistance to indentation. This calculation is determined by measuring the permanent depth or projected area of the indentation.
Hydrometers
Hydrometers are calibrated glass floats used to determine the specific gravity of a liquid.
Hygrometers and Humidity Measurement Instruments
Hygrometers and humidity measurement instruments test for absolute humidity, relative humidity, or dew point in air.
Instrument Calibration Services
Instrument calibration services test equipment and calibrate them to various standards.
Ion Specific Electrode Meters
Ion specific electrode meters are millivolt meters that interface with ion selective electrodes (ISEs). These meters take the potential generated by the electrode and convert it into units of concentration.
Laboratory Balances
Laboratory balances are used to measure an object’s mass to a very high degree of precision.
Leak Testing Equipment
Leak testing equipment is used to measure the escape of liquids, vacuum or gases from sealed components or systems.
Liquid Leak Detectors
Liquid leak detectors sense when a liquid is leaking from a pipe, tank, or other receptacle.
Mechanical Testing Equipment
Mechanical testing equipment covers devices used for adhesion, compression, drop (shock), tensile, vibration and fatigue testing.
Moisture Meters
Moisture meters are used to measure the moisture content in bulk solids, liquids and gases.
Oil in Water Monitors
Oil in water monitors are used to detect the presence of hydrocarbons in water.
Oil Sensors and Analyzers
Oil sensors and oil analyzers are used in automotive or industrial machinery applications to sense oil levels, and check for contamination, and particulates, viscosity and/or temperature.
Opacity Sensors and Instruments
Opacity sensors and instruments measure the amount of light transmitted through a sample.
Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP) Electrodes
Oxygen reduction potential (ORP) electrodes are analytical sensors for measuring oxidation-reduction potential (ORP).
Oxidation Reduction Potential (ORP) Instruments
Oxidation reduction potential (ORP) instruments measure or monitor ORP in solution.
Particle Analyzers
Particle analyzers are used to determine the physical makeup of individual particulates in aerosols, dispersion, emulsions, powders, and other samples.
pH Electrodes
pH electrodes are analytical sensors for measuring potential of hydrogen (pH), the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion activity in solution.
pH Instruments
pH instruments are used to measure or monitor potential of hydrogen (pH) in a solution.
Polymer Testing Equipment
Polymer test equipment includes melt flow indexers, extrusiometers, and other specialized instruments for determining the processability and properties of plastics and elastomer materials.
Powder Testing Equipment
Powder testing equipment is used to measure the static and dynamic properties of powders for pharmaceutical, coating, and other solid-particulate applications.
Property Testing Equipment
Property testers are used to determine various physical properties of samples, including cloud point, distillation, flash point, freezing point, melting point, pour point, and vapor pressure.
Pulp and Paper Testing Equipment
Pulp and paper testers include specialized sensors, instruments, COBB testers, and test equipment for evaluating the material properties and processability characteristics of pulp and paper.
Pycnometers
Pycnometers are glass or metal containers with a determined volume. They are typically used to determine the density of liquids and their dispersions
Radiation Detectors
Radiation detectors are used for medical diagnoses, radioactive dating measurements, and measurements of background radiation, activity levels and radiation doses.
Refractometers
Refractometers measure the critical angle of refraction through a sample. The critical angle of refraction will change with concentration.
Rheometers
Rheometers characterize a liquid according to its viscous properties and elastic responses.
Solar Radiation Instruments
Solar radiation instruments measure the spectral range of radiation, including global solar radiation (sun + sky), net radiation (incoming solar - reflected solar) and the photosynthetic light spectrum.
Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges and Disks
Solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges and disks are used to clean up a sample before using a chromatographic or other analytical method to quantify the amount of analyte(s) in the sample.
Stability Chambers and Rooms
Stability chambers and stability rooms are temperature-controlled and humidity-controlled environmental units that provide stable conditions for storage and testing purposes.
Surface Area and Pore Size Analyzers
Surface area and pore size analyzers are used to measure the surface area and pore size of a sample.
Temperature Indicators
Temperature indicators are designed for temperature monitoring and analysis. These devices either come equipped with an integral sensor, or require sensor input.
Thermal Imagers
Thermal imagers detect heat patterns in the infrared wavelength (1 micron to 100 micron) spectrum.
Titration Instruments
Titration instruments are used to determine the concentration of dissolved substances. Titration is based on a complete chemical reaction between the specific substance, the analyte, and a reagent or titrant of known concentration that is added to the sample.
Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzers
Total organic carbon (TOC) analyzers measure the amount of total organic carbon present in a liquid sample.
Turbidity Instruments
Turbidity instruments measure the average volume of light scattering over a defined angular range. Both particle size and concentration of suspended solids as well as dissolved solids can affect the reading.
Viscometers
Viscometers define viscous properties of a fluid at ambient or defined temperatures.
Water Quality Photometers and Colorimeters
Water quality photometers and colorimeters are ion-specific, computer-interfaced probes that are designed to determine the concentration of a solution from its color intensity.
Water Quality Testing Instruments
Water quality testing instruments are used to test water for chemical and biological agents, and to measure variables such as clarity and rate of movement.
Weather Instruments
Weather instruments are designed to measure one or multiple components of weather including wind speed and direction, rain or snow fall, solar radiation, temperature, pressure and humidity.
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A wide classification of instruments that are used to analyze material samples, or their components, and record data specific to the application.
