How frustrating is it to order a product and not get everything needed to operate the product? A toy that your kid is excited to play with, but they open it and there’s no batteries! What if you ordered a car, you showed up to pick it up, and it had no wheels on it? …
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Welp, after a long drive up into the Rockies with their trusty mini truck, the Dans arrived in Denver for the Fall ACS show. And boy was it worth it. We had another fantastic show with more than 100 people stopping by the booth, which meant the show was a smashing success. We managed to…
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Decades after Lloyd and Harry made their epic journey to Colorado, we find our heroes Dan and Dan replicating their journey with only their trusty mini truck to help them haul all the cool Lucidity products to the show to share with thousands of chemists at the Fall ACS show in Denver from Aug 18-22. …
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Well, miniature ones actually. But don’t fret, these miniature GCs still have the same cool look as the full sized Lucidity GCs, and they have the blue lights everyone loves as well! These little guys also come with their own cool boxes so they can be safely transported from one location to another like their…
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Dan discusses how to choose an appropriate solvent for sample preparation and GC (Gas Chromatography). Choosing the right solvent can be the difference between accurate quantitation of your analytes of interest and inaccurate quantitation, either because of poor extraction of the analytes from the sample or from poor chromatography.
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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Watch as Dan demonstrates how to use standards to quantify the amount of a certain substance in a material.
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Kratom is a plant native to Southeast Asia that has a variety of effects, many due to the active compound Mitragynine that is present in varying amounts in the plant. For this reason, you can find kratom in vitamin stores being sold as a supplement. It is marketed as an energy booster, mood enhancer, pain…
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Listen in as Prof Dan shows you what to do when peaks are coming out too close together in Gas Chromatography (GC) or Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). He gives some simple tips that can help better separate the peaks so you can better identify and quantify different compounds present in a sample.
