In our line of work, there is but one answer to this question:
"Who knows? Weigh 5 mg into a tin capsule and we'll put it into the EA and see what happens"
On Wed, Dec 9th, from 2-3 pm, I am giving a public lecture prior to my thesis defence. This lecture is open to the public. If you are interested, DM me and I will send the Zoom link.
@And1129 I tried three different brands of AgCl, all of which had horrible blanks, before settling on 99.99% graphite powder as an additive. Beautiful peaks and reproducibility. People complain about it, but I love the TC/EA. Such a freaky little box.
I’m so excited to share I’ve successfully defended my MS thesis!! Thank you so much @Andrea_Erhardt! I’m incredibly grateful for all the support from an extraordinary research team and such an amazing advisor!
@WolfmannotJack@Andrea_Erhardt I'm assuming it was vegetable oil, although it could have been something else. They're a great client and we knew what we were getting into. I do love the LGR for the fact that I simply had to pull the injector block and clean it and we were back in action!
@WolfmannotJack@Andrea_Erhardt Almost no separation of oil and water in the affected samples. I missed a few on the first session and ended up having to abort to clean an oily injector block. After that I tried vigorous centrifuging and then syringing with 0.45 and then 0.2 micron syringes. No luck...