Environmental Testing Articles

The Corporacion Nacional del Cobre de Chile (Codelco) is the main copper producer in the world, controlling approximately 20 percent of the world's copper reserves. Established in 1976, Codelco was created out of a 1971 Chilean constitutional reform that nationalized the copper industry. Codelco was established to operate and manage the mining properties given to the Chilean State as part of the ...

Dec. 15, 2015

By Thermo Fisher Scientific, LIMS & Laboratory Software

In a sense, metrology makes the world go around. It can quantify how long it takes the Earth to rotate, and the science of weights and measurements underpins everything from telling time to ensuring the fairness of international trade agreements. Metrologists must be extremely precise in their measurements, according to Alan Steele, Canada’s chief metrologist and the general manager of ...

Nov. 30, 2015

By ASTM International

Cytogenetic testing is used for the diagnosis of many genetic disorders including congenital (prenatal and adult) and hematologic/oncologic disorders. Processing of these tests used to be labor-intensive with unpredictable test data. That’s why the Cytogenetic Laboratory at Mayo Clinic and Thermotron joined forces to increase the efficiency of cytogenetic test processing with the invention ...

Nov. 10, 2014

By Thermotron Industries

Pesticides, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), andpharmaceuticalsare a worldwide contamination problem. Because these contaminates are long lived in the environment and bioaccumulate throughout the food chain a great deal of research and regulations has been implemented. Several major US water bodies such as the Hudson River, St. Lawrence River, Fox River and the Great Lakes have been contaminated ...

Sep. 6, 2011

By Horizon Technology, Inc.

Mount St. Mary's College is another major university/college that continues to retain Ellis for its environmental testing/consulting needs. Recently, Ellis administered the removal of asbestos pipe insulation prior to re-plumbing a five-story student residence. This included coordinating the abatement contractor's schedule with that of other trades working ...

Sep. 9, 2008

By Ellis Environmental Management, Inc.

E.S. Babcock & Sons, Inc. installed Element in Feb. 2002, and the LIMS system has been an integral part of their operation ever since. The transition itself did not take long, requiring about two days of onsite training with Promium staff members and around one month to transfer existing information and lab systems over to Element. Today, over 40 of Babcock’s employees are licensed Element ...

Aug. 21, 2008

By Promium LLC

Quality Assurance Solutions, LLC (QAS), has been using Mint Miner to review environmental testing data since 2003. “I believe strongly in this product and give out demo copies to every client I meet,” says Diane Lawver, President of QAS. “The product is well-designed and focused on the issues around assuring the integrity of organics data used for decision-making.” QAS uses Mint Miner to ...

Aug. 21, 2008

By Promium LLC

A solid state NiO-polyaniline mixture electrode is proposed and characterised to determine formaldehyde. The influence of ionic strength is particularly significant. The response is slow, so a waiting time, optimised at 90 min is needed, thus preventing a continuous or in-flow condition determination. Some common environmental possible interfering analytes have been tested, the most interfering ...

Aug. 2, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers