02 7 / 2012

Cleaning out the old lab! The old lab did research on metals present in water samples. They used a lot of spectroscopy and electrochemistry to do this. These are ‘Ion Standards’ of different transition metals. Each has a standard concentration of 1000 µL/ml. You can use these standards to calibrate your instruments; that way your instruments will be able to determine the concentration of one of these metals accurately (within a small error range). From left to right: Mercury, Chromium, Cerium, Cobalt, Rhodium*, Mercury, Manganese, Magnesium. (again, you can see the difficulty with disposing of these chemicals easily =P) *not Rhenium, thanks prussianpurple =]

Cleaning out the old lab!

The old lab did research on metals present in water samples. They used a lot of spectroscopy and electrochemistry to do this.

These are ‘Ion Standards’ of different transition metals. Each has a standard concentration of 1000 µL/ml. You can use these standards to calibrate your instruments; that way your instruments will be able to determine the concentration of one of these metals accurately (within a small error range).

From left to right: Mercury, Chromium, Cerium, Cobalt, Rhodium*, Mercury, Manganese, Magnesium.

(again, you can see the difficulty with disposing of these chemicals easily =P)

*not Rhenium, thanks prussianpurple =]

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