Very excited and honored to have our work included as one of the top analytical innovations for 2022! Thank you to The Analytical Scientist, thank to all the people who had a voice in this, thank you to all of our fantastic customers and collaborators, and thank you to all of our team members who…
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We’ve all been there before. You go to do that one thing on your GC that that person showed you during the installation and training, but you can’t remember how the heck to do it! Or your GC has arrived, and you’re so excited to get it up and running, but the installation and training…
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We’ve talked in a previous post about how you know whether your sample is matching reference runs previously generated from that or similar samples, but how do you determine whether it’s an issue with the analyzer or an issue with the sample…? Here’s how. Your Lucidity GC-FID ships with a Check Standard and a Starter…
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New Feature: Reference Results We’ve added a great new feature to our GC and LC software, and that’s the ability to create Reference Results. In many cases our customers are analyzing the same thing day in and day out with the purpose of confirming that certain compounds are present or that certain compounds are not,…
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We’d like to thank everyone for coming to see us at HPLC in San Diego a few weeks ago! It was a great conference as usual, and it was really nice to see everyone in person again! We enjoyed seeing some familiar faces and a lot of new faces. Thank you to everyone who attended…
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It’s March Madness, Lucidity style! We’re very excited to bring you a 6 part series of webinars that will air on Wednesdays beginning March 23 and concluding April 6. Each Wednesday there will be a 1 hour webinar from 11:00AM – 12:00PM (EST) and a 1 hour webinar from 3:00PM to 4:00PM (EST) on a…
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We’re very excited to announce that we’re launching a new video series titled “Will it Analyze?” that ties in with the popular “Will it Digest?” and “Will it Extract?” video series from CEM. In this video series Prof. Dan will take a look at everyday objects and see what can be analyzed in either the…
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Daniel Iversen, R&D Chemist, Lucidity Introduction While spending time with my family over the holiday season, I was given a bottle of whiskey by my father-in-law, who boasted that it was a very fine bottle of whiskey and he paid top dollar for it. This got me wondering if there was a way to tell…
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by Dan Iversen, Lucidity R&D Scientist While doing inventory in the lab, I came across a vial of pure capsaicin. I wondered why we had capsaicin. Rather than throw it out, I decided to use it to know the level of capsaicin in the hot peppers that I eat. After a quick google search to…
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We recently analyzed hemp oil extracted from hemp from a hemp grower. We first diluted approximately 0.1g of the viscous oil in 40mL of acetonitrile then put a portion of this diluted sample into a sample vial and placed it in the miniLC. We ran our standard cannabinoid method that had been calibrated using a…
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