September 2011
Volume 43, Number 9
One of the focal points of the September issue is an article on the use of an FTIR spectrometer for characterizing the spectral output of a diode laser. Another article describes a method based on parallel kinetic resolution and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.
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Table of Contents
Ronda Gras, Milton Lee, Robert L. Stevenson, Ph.D.
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Instrumentation has a life cycle. Gas
chromatographs are mature, so the
cycle is probably 10–12 years.
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Philipp Sulzer, Alfons Jordan, Lukas Märk, Christopher A. Mayhew, Kurt Becker, Tilmann D. Märk
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Scientists at the Institute of Ion Physics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) started their research on proton transfer reaction-mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) in the early 1980s, including hollow ...
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Richard Spragg
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Characterizing the spectral output
of a diode laser requires more than simply measuring the center wavelength with a wavemeter.
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David Engelhart, Fred Feyerherm, Stephan Baumann, Bernhard Rothweiler
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Testing hair for drugs of abuse has been practiced for over 50 years, due in large part to the ability to detect
drug use over a longer period of time, as compared to other biological matrices, ...
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Pat Kriwoy, Peter Froehlich
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is an extremely important tool in the elucidation of molecular
structure and is commonly used to obtain
information about the interaction between ...
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Heidi Fleischer, Kerstin Thurow
Thursday, September 01, 2011
The enantiomeric composition of proline is commonly determined using conventional analytical methods such as HPLC, GC,
and CE.
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Jeanne Mensingh, Colin Thurston
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Companies working within the environmental and water and wastewater sectors face a number of significant challenges with regard to delivering accurate, consistent, and traceable results.
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Qianqian Song, Bin Xu, Xinning Li, Wu Li, Guimin Qian
Thursday, September 01, 2011
The deposited salts and brine from
salt lakes are important industrial
resources for many kinds of salts,
such as edible salt, potassium,
boron, lithium, and a few heavy metals.
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