Category Archives: Environmental Analysis

Labratory Evaluation of ATOMX Purge & Trap System

I Just thought I’d share with you my recent experience with the Teledyne Tekmar ATOMX. The Purge and Trap market in the UK has been quiet for some time, with most clients using headspace for VOC analysis due to the … Continue reading

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Time to Change the Way you Extract Water Samples?

If you are an environmental analyst workin with GC-MS, sample preparation by solid phase extraction is an attractive alternative to liquid-liquid extraction when working with water samples. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work out in practice. There are a number of … Continue reading

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PAHs from Soil

I’ve been working on the extraction of PAHs from soils again this week. We have a fairly crude method whereby we extract 2 grams of soil in conjunction with 1g of copper. To the soil sample the GERSTEL Multi Purpose … Continue reading

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My Blog Initiation

So this is my first Anatune blog entry and actually my first ever blog entry too, nothing like being thrown in at the deep end… so here goes… I’ve been working on a few things this week; Firstly I have … Continue reading

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