The AMC

The AMC is the part of the Analytical Division (AD) that handles matters of technical importance to the Analytical Science Community.

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After careful consideration, the AMC will not be using this X account to share future updates. To stay connected, follow us on LinkedIn for news, events, and new guidance. Thank you for being part of our journey here!

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Looking back - has instrumentation made analysis better or worse?

TB025: How good were analysts in the good old days before instrumentation?
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Can we use recovery factors to correct results? And should we?

TB021A: The estimation and use of recovery factors
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What does the new SI mean for analytical chemists?

TB086: Revision of the International System of Units (Background paper)
https://t.co/wMFhhNZI4m
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If you need an economical experimental estimate of the uncertainty associated with sampling ...

TB040: The Duplicate Method for the estimation of measurement uncertainty arising from sampling
https://t.co/iKZoDS4E8J

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More hand-held instrumentation: A short review of hand-held IR and Raman instruments and their uses.

TB094: An introduction to hand-held infra-red and Raman Instrumentation
https://t.co/slKndoOO14
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The shortest ever guide to proficiency testing.

TB018A: What is proficiency testing? A guide for end-users of chemical data
https://t.co/Y7gC9Gc7ZO

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Combining sampling and analytical variation for small samples can lead to underestimated of expanded uncertainty. This TB explains why, and what to do about it

TB114: Improved estimates of expanded measurement uncertainty
https://t.co/UEbXIPFDPO
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What is "fitness for purpose" in proficiency testing?

TB019A: General and specific fitness functions for proficiency tests and other purposes - clarifying an old idea
https://t.co/vbGYmn8BIb

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Ever wondered how those simple CHNS analysers work? Here's how.

TB029: CHNS Elemental Analysers
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Should we discard results below detection limits?

TB005: What should be done with results below the detection limit?
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Ever wished there was a 2-page intro to LC-MS? Well ...

TB034: High-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS)
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Ever wondered how molecular biologists count DNA molecules accurately?

TB079: dPCR – the digital polymerase chain reaction
https://t.co/JrptWnwqzd
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Outliers in data happen. What do we do about them?

TB039: Rogues and Suspects: How to Tackle Outliers
https://t.co/es9vcRtq59

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NOT about the weather - how metrology started and why it matters for analytical chemists.

TB076: Chemical metrology
https://t.co/dHpuzEf3vp
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Asymmetric uncertainty intervals can be tricky. Here's a simple way of presenting them.

TB088: Why do we need the uncertainty factor?
https://t.co/k0DlEqRlJ6
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No real data is ever (quite) normally distributed. But is it close enough? And how do we know?

TB082: Are my data normal?
https://t.co/vVNyJuT51W
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy provides nearly instant elemental analysis of materials. Here's how it's used for heritage science.

TB091: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in cultural heritage
https://t.co/RVCBW1wR7D
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