Advantages of Filtering HPLC mobile phase solvents
Filtering HPLC mobile phase solvents removes suspended particulates that can build up in columns, raise back pressure, and damage pump components over time.
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All articles from Lab Training, covering chromatography, spectroscopy, microbiology, and analytical method validation, in order of publication.
Contribution of Instrumental Techniques towards advances in Analytical Chemistry
How instrumental techniques like spectroscopy and chromatography advanced analytical chemistry, delivering faster, automated, less biased results.
Suggested Practices to keep your laboratory contamination free
Practical measures to keep a laboratory contamination free by controlling outside dust, visitor and staff access, personal belongings, and repair work.
Sampling essentials for Water analysis using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Covers sample collection, storage, and transportation practices for water analysis by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy to ensure a representative sample.
Welcome 4 new elements to the Periodic Table
Covers IUPAC's 2016 addition of nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson, completing the periodic table's seventh row, and the story behind each name.
Wear Metal Analysis in Used Oils- A potential application area of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Explains how Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy of used lubricating oil detects wear metals like chromium, copper, iron, and lead in engine components.
Benefits of Automated replacement of GC liners
Explains how automated liner exchange systems replace contaminated GC injector liners mid-sequence, saving time versus manual cleaning or replacement.
Types of Liners and their Selection
Explains how GC inlet liner design, packed, unpacked, or baffled, should be matched to split, splitless, direct, or PTV injection techniques for reliable sample transfer.
Sample Injection Techniques for Capillary Column Gas Chromatography
Compares splitless, split, direct, and on-column injection techniques for capillary GC, explaining how each affects sample transfer, sensitivity, and peak shape.
Laboratory documentation – A must for all laboratories!
Why laboratory documentation matters across academic, medical, industrial, forensic, and regulatory laboratories for reproducibility and legal defense.
Minimization of influence of random fluctuations in operating conditions in GC analysis
Covers causes of random fluctuations in GC operating conditions, from gas quality and leaks to injection reproducibility and temperature drift.
Understand Laboratory Standards and Reference Materials
Explains laboratory standards and reference materials, covering traceability, metrological and chemical standards, and documented standards like ISO and AOAC.
How Laboratory instruments compare with Process Monitoring instruments?
Compares laboratory instruments with industrial process monitoring instruments, explaining differences in versatility, ruggedness, and unattended operation.
Training Programme on ‘Food Testing by Proximate analysis,Vitamin analysis,Aflatoxin analysis and Pesticide residue analysis’
Recaps a hands-on food testing training program in New Delhi covering proximate, vitamin, aflatoxin and pesticide residue analysis for Ethiopian trainees.
How to avoid pitfalls in interpretation of Calibration plots
Explains common pitfalls in interpreting calibration plots, too few data points, wrong concentration range, uncalibrated glassware, and how to generate reliable data.
Familiarize yourself with the Calibration Plot
Explains what a calibration plot is and how to read one, helping judge whether an analytical technique is linear and sensitive enough for quantitation.
Potential applications of HPLC in Clinical laboratories
The article discusses briefly about some common HPLC analysis applications in clinical laboratories.
Contribution of HPLC to Nutritional Labeling of Foods
HPLC is a useful technique for analysis of nutrition content of foods
Replicate determinations in Chemical Analysis
Explains why chemical analysis relies on replicate determinations, and the time, cost, and resource limits on how many replicates are practical.
How to Prevent Accidents through safe handling of analytical instruments
Covers precautions against electrical, radiation, and hot-surface hazards posed by analytical instruments to prevent accidents and equipment breakdowns.
Misuse of Laboratory Glassware
Highlights common misuses of laboratory glassware, including play, serving food, or gifting, and the contamination and breakage hazards these create.
How Knowledge of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy will contribute to my career growth?
Explains how Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy skills open career paths in mining, environmental monitoring, pharmaceuticals, food safety, and forensics.
Why very long capillary GC columns are not preferred?
Explains why capillary GC columns are typically kept within 15 to 60 meters, since longer columns bring diminishing gains alongside cost and bleed.
Importance of Laboratory Safety
Explains why laboratory safety should be a habit, since each worker is responsible for their own safety and colleagues' safety amid chemical, fire, and other hazards.