Due to increasing environmental pollutants and global industrialization, food and water safety have become crucial concerns today. Ensuring that consumables are free from harmful contaminants is a ...

*If you learn how to use atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), you can do accurate and reliable chemical research. But it takes practice and concentration to fully grasp its basic ideas. Understanding ...

Milk is one of the fundamental food groups in the human diet, both as various dairy products and in its original state. The 2008 Chinese contaminated baby formula scandal increased awareness amongst ...

For laboratories needing a high-performance atomic absorption (AA) spectrometer, the PinAAcle™ 900H is a combined flame/deuterium furnace system with continuum source background correction. Through ...

Spectroscopy represents a scientific measurement technique for the studying of matter through its interaction with different components of the electromagnetic spectrum. It can measure light by ...

In clean water (left), the gold nanoparticles are in a dispersed state and are red in colour; when salt is added, they remain dispersed. In arsenic-contaminated water (right), the addition of salt ...

What is Atomic Absorption Spectrometry? AAS is a technique for determining how much of a specific element is present in the specimen under study. The uptake of optical radiation by neutral atoms in ...

When we taught a class of first year chem/biochem majors about spectroscopy, we introduced them to it with a task. It was to dig through bins full of the things shown below (many of them 3D-printed ...