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Tips and Tricks for IC Columns
Monitoring and maintaining column performance One of the basic requirements for ensuring reliable chromatographic analyses is a high-performance separation column. Ion chromatography (IC) users should regularly check the performance of their column. This way, if a...
How to Transfer Manual Titration to Autotitration
Maybe you've read our earlier blog post on the main error sources in manual titration and are now wondering what you have to do in order to convert your manual titration to autotitration. In this blog entry, I want to give you a step by step guideline on how to...
Benefits of NIR spectroscopy: Part 3
This blog post is part of the series “NIR spectroscopy: helping you save time and money”. How to implement NIRS in your laboratory workflow This is the third installment in our series about NIR spectroscopy. In our previous installments of this series, we explained...
Increase productivity and profitability in environmental analysis with IC
Nearly every chemist begins his or her path under the guidance of trained professionals, learning the correct way to implement the scientific method and to handle themselves safely in the laboratory. I am no different; I obtained my doctorate in Analytical and...
How Mira Became Mobile
Handheld Raman spectrometers are truly like no other analytical chemical instruments. All spectrometers (e.g. IR/NIR, UV-Vis, GC/MS, and Raman) rely on interactions between matter and energy and include detectors that collect information about resulting atomic and...
How to determine if your edible oils are rancid
Rancidity is the process through which oils and fats become partially or completely oxidized after exposure to moisture, air, or even light. Though not always that obvious, foods can go rancid long before they become old. For oils, whose antioxidant properties are...
Benefits of NIR spectroscopy: Part 2
This blog post is part of the series “NIR spectroscopy: helping you save time and money”. Infrared spectroscopy and near infrared spectroscopy – is there a difference? This is the second installment in our series about NIR spectroscopy. In this post, you will learn...
Determining the total sulfite in food and beverages: faster and easier than ever
The chances are good that if you’re reading this, you are an analytical chemist or somehow connected to the food science sector. Maybe you have had the lucky experience of measuring sulfite (SO32-) before in the laboratory. I certainly have, and the adventure...
The man behind Metrohm: Bertold Suhner
On April 1 in 1943, Bertold Suhner founded Metrohm, in Herisau, Switzerland. Besides being our founder, he was a scientist, a sportsman, a painter, a pilot, and a philanthropist. We owe him a great company, and we are proud to serve the world with our legendary Swiss...
We are pioneers: Metrohm Process Analytics
Did you know... Metrohm not only manufactures instruments for laboratory analysis, but we also cater to the industrial process world! Your analytical challenges are unique, so why shouldn’t your solution be as well? We develop customized solutions for process analysis...