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VWR now offering Lucidity’s products!

  It is with great excitement that we would like to announce that our products are now being offered to customers anywhere in the world through VWR / Avantor.  Now anyone, anywhere in the world, can have access to Lucidity’s product line including our GC, LC, and GAS systems. VWR / Avantor has long been…
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BTEX on the Lucidity GC-FID

Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, is a term given to organic compounds that become a gas at ambient temperatures and pressures.  These VOCs are monitored because many are hazardous to human health, with several being a carcinogen.  The source of these VOCs are industrial processes, vehicle emissions, and even natural sources such as forest fires.…
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How much of a pounding can your Gas Chromatograph take?

Robustness is something that needs to be considered when using a Gas Chromatograph (GC) instrument.  You want a system that is rugged and reliable and able to withstand dirty samples and long batch times, so that you don’t have to spend a lot of time troubleshooting, repairing, or cleaning your GC.  After all, you’ve got…
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Core shell columns: What are they and how will they help with my HPLC analysis?

HPLC columns are the crux of a good separation and as we all learned, the smaller the particle size, the higher the efficiency of the column, and the better resolution you will get. This better resolution leads to more peaks being separated out or even close eluting peaks to be baseline resolved.  With smaller particle…
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What’s in my Gummies? Part 2

Continuing on from last week with the gummy bear sample preparations, I decided to take a look at the different things in that gummy bear.  The gummy bear in question is a multivitamin that contains a multitude of different vitamins, so I decided to first focus on Vitamin C or Ascorbic Acid.   Preparing the sample…
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What’s in my gummies? Part 1

With gummy candies becoming more common as a matrix for things like cannabinoids and multivitamins, it’s important to have a simple, fast, and repeatable sample preparation in order to obtain reliable values for analytes of interest in these gummies. I started with a multivitamin fiber gummy, and I thought to myself, how do I get…
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