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NEWS 3/2010

“Gentlemen, start your engines!”

…not only reduces the expense of routinely dismantling components for visual inspection, but can also indicate unexpected wear prior to component failure. Flexible analytical technique essential High sample throughput as…

NEWS 3/2010

Product detection in electrochemical cells

…electrode potential in a certain potential range. Nowadays, voltammetry is often combined with in-situ or on-line analysis techniques such as microscopy, spectroscopy, and chromatography. However, combining voltammetry with chromatographic techniques…

NEWS 3/2010

Tailor-made FTIR accessories

…how the sample top plate and the instrument housing lie in one plane. The accessory is tailor-made. For the ‘out of compartment’ MIRacle10, a new crystal design has been applied…

NEWS 3/2010

Sensitivity meets robustness and precision

for the determination of total water-borne nitrogen (TN) by means of oxidative combustion chemiluminescence. Both combustion tube and oxidation catalyst are shared with TOC (Total Organic Carbon) analysis. The well-known…

NEWS 3/2010

Bitter, fresh, hoppy …

Headspace solid-phase microcolumn extraction determines aroma compounds in beer From Ján Hrivňák a), Daniela Šmogrovičová b), Pavol Nádaský b), Jana Lakatošová a), b) a) Plant Production Research Center Piešt’any, Institute…

NEWS 3/2010

White giant or white dwarf?

Particle size distribution measurements of TiO2 using Shimadzu’s Particle Size Analyzers What do white tattoo ink, milk, toothpaste and lines on tennis courts have in common? In all cases, TiO2…

NEWS 3/2010

How physics discovered TOC

…other similar projects, the focus is on research, and many new potentially innovative approaches are being pursued. To measure the efficiency of the lighting system developed, the growth of the…

NEWS 3/2010

Hard currency?

…– freely selectable between 5 and 999 seconds. As recommended in the Standard, the indentation duration in the following examples was 15 seconds. Russia has the ‘hardest’ currency Although Shimadzu’s…

NEWS 3/2010

A granular look at sugar

for some time on sugar compounds, particularly glucose. Significant progress in metabolic research on sugar could, however, only be achieved through the availability of novel analytical methods. With its GC-MS…

NEWS 3/2010

“Plastic Planet”

…the film “Plastic Planet”, there are six times more plastics in the oceans than plankton. Already in the early 1980s, the European Community introduced measures regulating the management of packaging…