Daniel is back on the road to do live demos for potential customers who have expressed interest in having an on site demonstration. So, he loaded up a van full of Lucidity Instruments and headed out on the road to show off what we can offer to the world of chromatography. His first stop, Duke…
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Over the end of year holidays I’ve been known to have an alcoholic beverage or two in the evening when I have nothing else to do. This got me thinking about BAC and what it takes to test that. I know that a field breathalyzer can use either IR Spectroscopy or Potassium dichromate for the…
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In a previous blog post we ran diesel contaminated oil with great success without the need for backflushing. Afterward we were contacted by labs that do this type of testing and they asked if we could use Heptane as a wash solvent rather than Dichloromethane. The reason was that they already had a waste stream…
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Do you ever feel like the software developer who designed the software that you are using never actually used their own product. Well, here at Lucidity we feel the same way, which is why we made one of our software developers install our GC-FID using only their software and videos. We did this to give…
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To prepare for Gulf Coast Conference we put oil through the GC-FID to run ASTM D7593 and let me tell you the results were interesting, so… We gassed up! And are ready to head out to Galveston, Texas for Gulf Coast Conference 2024! Be sure to stop by booth number 122 to…
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Recently we became aware of an interesting and very popular GC-FID application. Users of heavy machinery regularly send out samples of their engine oil to monitor the performance and status of their machinery, and there are specialty labs all over that specialize in the testing of this oil via GC-FID. With Gulf Coast Conference…
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Last week, the GC-FID tried some sour candy to test for citric acid. This week the LC-UV gets to try some orange and lime juices to also test for citric acid. Citric acid is what give citrus fruits their tart taste and was first found by chemist Carl Scheele, who crystalized it from lemon juice…
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Citric acid is a weak, colorless organic acid. The main sources of citric acid are citrus fruits such as limes and lemons, and due to this many people confuse citric acid and vitamin C. Citric acid is an intermediate in the citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle, an important process in the body to get…
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While cold and flu season are over for now, allergy season is here. When my allergies are in full force I get quite a tickle in my throat that causes me to cough quite frequently. To deal with this I like to keep cough drops on hand to help ease the cough.…
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While eating breakfast with my kid, they asked me about the dyes in the cereal. That got me thinking about the different dyes in food and how these dyes were analyzed. I thought that a UV-Vis instrument would be the best choice. But, what about an HPLC with a UV detector? I figured a UV…
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