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Steve Ernst
Discussions about food safety generally focus on contaminants such as bacteria, pesticides and other non-food substances that find their way
into the final product, usually through flaws in growing, ...
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Stanley N. Deming
In the previous two columns (January/February and April 2016), we looked at the basic ideas behind control charts, saw how to construct the
common X-bar and R charts and discovered that only two ...
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Matthias Wagner
Virtually all materials interact with water. Accurate determination of a product’s water content and mechanism of water–solid interactions is required to define suitable processing, packaging, storage...
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Temperature is the most critical influencer of viscosity, which leads to many viscosity tests being performed at various temperatures, e.g., motor oils at 40 °C and 100 °C, residual fuels at 50 °C and...
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Michael F. Drenski, Wayne F. Reed
Real-time analysis of polymer properties and
reaction kinetics allows scientists to control the outcome of a polymerization process.
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John Duffy
The flow behavior, or rheology, of a product often defines its value and contributes to processability
and ease of manufacture.
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Mike May
The right upstream separation helps this MS detection find almost anything related to a crime.
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Chris Linnevers
Labeling and purifying antibodies in-house
can be a multi-step process.
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Julie DeCook
Zone refining is a process in which organic and inorganic compounds are purified.
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Mike May
Imaging and diffraction characterize particles, from medical treatments to objects in outer space.
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Andrew N. Cleland, Jean-Luc Fraikin, Peter Meinhold, Franklin Monzon
Nanoparticle analysis is becoming a central part of pharmaceutical development.
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