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Tune in this Wednesday to learn about the future of GC-MS

Join us Wednesday this week to hear from Lucidity R&D Chemist Daniel Iversen on the future of GC-MS as part of the CHROMTalks 2025 Live Symposium (which runs Wednesday and Thursday) put on by LCGC International.  You can join in this Wednesday (September 24) at 2:30PM EDT to hear from Dan and others in the…
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Make the green choice and come see us at the first ever analytica USA next week

Everyone talks about being green, but we really mean it.  Our GC-FID with accompanying GAS system: Uses a fraction of the power of a traditional GC-FID mostly because of an oven that’s about 1/6 the size of a traditional GC Does not use Helium Generates all its own needed gasses so there’s no need for…
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There’s nothing like spending time in the field

This week the Dans are at the Fall 2025 ACS (American Chemical Society) meeting in Washington, DC, and last week Daniel Nason was in Puerto Rico with our Avantor friends at PRChem 2025 in San Juan.  In San Juan, Nason presented for a couple hundred onlookers from academia and industry as well as participated in…
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The Dans are heading the nation’s capital for Fall ACS 2025!

That’s right, Lucidity will be in Washington, DC for Fall ACS 2025 August 17-21.  Be sure to stop by booth #2513 and chat with the Dans and to see what new innovations Lucidity has to offer for your lab.     And if you aren’t able to attend, click the links below to request a…
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What is this?? MS data??

Last week we posted a fun article about testing the amount of vanillin in different samples in order to evaluate the effectiveness of extracting vanillin from vanilla beans in ethanol to use as a vanilla additive in recipes.  And while we were testing different samples for vanilla, we decided to analyze one of the sample…
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Lucidity GC-FID Helps With Baking!

Awhile back, Lucidity did an extraction of vanilla using the pressurized liquid extraction, and this got me thinking about doing the extraction at home in a cupboard for use in my baked goods.  The first thing I did was what any good home baker does, I went online to see how to make homemade vanilla…
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Why are Lucidity GCs and HPLCs so inexpensive?

We’ve been doing a lot of travelling recently between attending conferences and trade shows and doing demo tours, and we get one question very frequently.  “Why are your systems so inexpensive?”  This question comes up because our systems are typically about half the price of traditional GCs and HPLCs, yet they have the same capability. …
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Our products are setting the world on fire!

The Dans spent last week in beautiful Minnesota attending a conference for Caterpillar (CAT) testing labs.  They had the opportunity to spend time with our customers and prospects in the network updating them on our latest product offerings and understanding their latest needs and pain points. Dan Iversen also had the opportunity to present in…
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You’ve got one more day to come see Gemma and Stefan!

There’s one more day left at HPLC 2025 in Bruges, Belgium, and our Avantor colleagues Gemma Lo and Stefan Steidl have been hard at work catching up with old friends, interacting with customers, and talking to new prospects about the Lucidity products.  So, if you’re attending the meeting, make sure you stop by and say…
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Lucidity profiled in an LCGC article this week on benchtop GCs

Lucidity was profiled in an article this week by Nicholas Snow that was published in the June 2025 issue of LCGC International, which can be viewed here. In the article Nick reviews new benchtop Gas Chromatographs and profiles offerings from 5 providers: Agilent, PerkinElmer, Thermo Fisher, Shimadzu, and Lucidity, noting that two of the latest…
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