It only seems appropriate during cold and flu season that we do something on soaps and hand sanitizers, and interestingly enough, we have some customers who are analyzing exactly that. One of the active ingredients our customers are looking for is BZK (Benzalkonium chloride), also known as BAC, BKC, and BAK. BZK is an antimicrobial…
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Professor Dan explains how much sample you should put in your Gas Chromatograph (GC), and how to adjust the amount of sample you’re putting in
Whether you drink a beer from a major manufacturer, the local brewer down the street, or even brew the beer yourself, knowing the ethanol content of that beer is an important piece of information. Up until 1995 the alcohol content wasn’t allowed to be on beer labels at all until the Coors Brewing Company successfully…
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Professor Dan explains calibration curves
To kick off 2024, we’d like to share some of the reasons why folks have chosen the Lucidity GC and LC this past year: Easy to use Self-installable Small footprint No gas tanks required for the GC Great / Free support from Lucidity Low cost Transparent pricing (system cost includes everything you need to run…
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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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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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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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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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