Limited to one application on your IC? Not here! Instrumentation is a big investment for any laboratory, so you want to get as much out of your instrument as possible. While some laboratories have high enough throughput to dedicate instruments to a specific applications, many do not. Which makes flexibility...Read More
Keep your instrument in optimum working order. Maintaining your precision instrumentation has many parallels with maintaining your car. We perform a number of small maintenance procedures throughout the year. With certified service engineers performing major maintenance and calibrations on an annual or six monthly basis. Users of Metrohm IC, will...Read More
Every sample for Ion Chromatography analysis must be particle free. This means, almost, every sample needs filtration. While this can be performed manually, that leads to A) a sore thumb and B) a lot of filter cartridges. So let’s automate. Automating sample filtration saves our thumbs and lowers the time...Read More
Monitoring of individual organic acids with reverse suppression. Monitoring organic acids has been a tricky concept for a long time. As they are weak, to the point of non-dissociated, with a very low conductivity, separation and quantification has always been a headache. Yet monitoring of organic acids is important for...Read More
Keep an eye on your instrument, or let it do so for you! It has been mentioned here before, all instruments need to be looked after. But when should we intervene? With Metrohm IC, all of the primary components are monitored by the system. Columns, pumps and detectors all monitor...Read More
Total N, P and Oxyhalides: One system, all of the parameters Ion chromatography is the chosen technique for oxy-halide analysis and, with persulfate digestion, quantification of total nitrogen and phosphorus is now simpler with ion chromatography too. While both of these applications are ideal for environmental laboratories, they have required...Read More
Accuracy is only a heartbeat away High precision instrumentation is used to improve repeatability and achieve lower detection limits. Ion chromatography certainly falls into this category with some applications achieving detection limits down to 1 ppt. Liquid and sample handling While instruments may be capable of these low detection limits,...Read More
Care for your instrument, it will love you for it! Like your car, complex laboratory instruments require maintenance. Unlike cars, laboratory instruments cannot run at “near optimal” performance. While your car will keep running if you don’t top up the windscreen washer fluid, an IC will not give the correct...Read More
Recent advances in IC applications make it a must for pharmaceutical solutions. Pharmaceutical manufacturing and solution analysis has always been a stronghold of HPLC instrumentation. While HPLC is still the most common technique seen in pharmaceutical laboratories, Ion Chromatography, as a sub-section of liquid chromatography is becoming a very important...Read More
You might be surprised at the affect your water and reagents have on instrument operation. Over the course of an analysis, eluent travels through an IC system at a rate of 1,000:1 in comparison to the volume of sample, and that is only when analysing a sample. For this reason,...Read More
Tired of entering data in LIMS? We can help with that, it’s MagIC! It has been mentioned here, and in many other places, the number one source of errors in the lab is the person holding the burette, making up the reagents or labelling the vial. This is also true...Read More
“Chromatography is a slow analytical technique…..” “If it doesn’t use gradient elution it won’t be fast enough……” “I can’t wait that long for results…..” These are all statements that have been synonymous with ion chromatography for a long time, but are they really true? There have been a let of...Read More
