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We received a bunch of questions that we did not have time to answer during the webinar. So we thought you might like to see them answered here. If you did not get a chance to see the Webinar, or if you just want to watch it again here you go: What solution should be…
Watch Sergei Leikin, PhD (Texas Scientific Products) and Autumn Phillips (Inorganic Ventures) discuss the daily challenges of ICP operation in an open forum format. Lots of questions and answers. Click here to see the full list of questions and answers!
Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) spectrometers use argon gas to generate an aerosol from the liquid sample that is being tested. The argon gas also carries the sample aerosol to the plasma where the analysis takes place. Argon gas, by default, is moisture free, which works well for most samples, but not all! Samples containing elevated amounts…
A picture is worth 1,000 words – and so here we have a shot of our OptiMist nebulizer installed into a Radial iCAP 6000 series ICP. Note how it is installed into the cyclonic spray chamber with the Argon gas line pointing down. This is important as it assures the tip of the nebulizer is…
Extreme care must be used when handling quartz glassware – especially if the item is a torch or injector tube an Inductively Couple Plasma spectrometer (ICP). The quartz glass used in the production of our torches, spray chambers and nebulizers is one of the most pure substances on earth. As such, it has…
Presented by Sergei Leikin, Ph.D. The following post is based on a technical poster presented at the 2016 ICP Winter Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Modifications of the original presentation have been made to accommodate the blog layout as well as more detail around the primary application being Wear Metals and Additives in Oil and Ethylene Glycol. The shown analytical…
Pop some pop-corn, get your notepad and settle in to catch Sergei Leikin navigating through the murky waters of nebulizer selection. During the 2015 Gulf Coast Conference, our resident expert covered concentric, parallel and cross-flow style ICP nebulizers and the merit of each for various applications. He also goes into details about TSP’s line of nebulizers…
This is just a quick note to describe the process we went through to connect our blog to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Well it actually was pretty simple. We selected the WordPress platform for our blog. Within the blog platform is a “JetPack” package with a number of cool features you can add onto the…
A couple weeks ago,we at Texas Scientific Products (TSP) turned on our new e-commerce shop. It is a vast improvement over the last shop. We went through an exhaustive (and exhausting) review of solutions, as well as months of preparation. We know that it will be a work in progress, as we tweak and tune…