Tag: Lucidity GC-FID Blog

How do you know if you’re getting good results from your GC?

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,…
Read more

Analysis of Whiskeys by GC-FID

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…
Read more

Capsaicin in Peppers

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…
Read more