Visit Buck Scientific on July 29-31 BCCE (Biennial Conference on Chemical Education)

The BCCE is the world’s largest congregation of scientific minds and teaches where over 1000 educators meet in order to inspire the younger generation on the importance of science. It is often populated with people from all levels of the education spectra: middle school science teachers, students who are both undergraduates and graduates, high school chemistry teachers and professors who connect with all of these people on various platforms.  If you are interested in analytical lab work, then this is the stand that you have to be at. Buck scientific will be putting all their Spectroscopy accessories and supplies                           on display and will be showing all who are interested how they are used and what they do. If you get there on time, you might get to see them analyze a sample.

Buck scientific, being one of the premier analytical instrument providers, will be there and you will also have a chance to get the instruments at prices that are lower than what you would expect even on their website.  Other instruments that will be on display will be the infrared accessories. A demonstration of the way that they are used and what they do will take place. Hailed as one of the top suppliers of spectroscopy accessories and supplies, Buck scientific have the ability to deliver all the instruments and accessories that you order at the conference right to you lab or preferred destination right after the conference.

The Most Useful Chromatography Accessories

Chromatography is a separation technique that is used in analytical chemistry to separate substances of different solubilities. The way that it works is that we have a stationary phase that is usually a solid. This is the phase that is going to be retaining the analyte when it is run through it. The other is the mobile phase that is run through the stationary phase. The most common form of this technique is the high performance liquid chromatography. This utilizes a column where the mobile phase is packed in. The substance inside the column can be either a solid or a liquid. The analyte is then run through the mobile phase. This is where pressure is applied and when this is done, we have what is known as a high pressure liquid chromatograph. So from the above, we can see that there are certain chromatography accessories that we have to have. The first set of these accessories is the column hardware that we are going to be using. This includes the column and all other fittings that come with it. These are often used to deliver the mobile phase during the HPLC. After that we need to have valves that open in only one way. This is the instrument that is used to analyze the results that you find after performing the chromatography. Mostly all of these things come in a set and the only thing that you need to do then is to set up and you are good to go.

What is FTIR?

FTIR, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, is an analytical technique that is used to identify certain chemical compounds and their subsequent groups. The way that is does this is through obtaining a spectrum of absorption, photoconductivity, absorption or roman scattering of either a gas, liquid or solid.  Before we go any further, it would be important to know what infrared is. This is a light that occurs in the range of 0.7 and 500um.

The reason that the FTIR is more popular now than the previously used disperse infrared spectrometer is because it collects data over a large range of wavelengths at a time.

How does it work?

It is important to note that the aim of any type of spectroscopy is to measure the absorption of certain wavelengths of light by a solid, liquid, or gas.

What is FTIR used for?

FTIR has come to be applied in a lot of areas: both scientific and in others that are less so. For example, this technique is used in the identification of minute amounts of a substance in a mixture. This spectroscopy method helps identify the real paintings from the fake ones. It is also used in combination with a gas chromatograph in gas chromatography where it is used to deduce the presence of certain gasses in a mixture.  In this way, it can also be used to identify isomers in an element in the same way that an inferred spectrophotometer does. There are so many more used of this method of spectroscopy and most of them involve the identification of different substances in a mixture or the separation of the same.