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A glove box consists of a sealed box with the inside accessible only by gloves. Though their uses are expanding, they are essentially utilized for two basic purposes: Protect what you work on from the environment, such as an analytic balance on a production floor, or protect you from what you work on, such as a virus. Despite the fact that most glove boxes provide a relatively simple process, different applications require different boxes.
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Mobile technology is finally picking up steam in laboratory information markets. The sweet spots for mobile access are sample collections occurring outside the lab, for example, taking health and safety samples throughout a pharmaceutical facility, in collecting environmental samples in the field, or when testing labs become too cramped to house stand-alone data systems and hardware. On one hand developers of mobile applications strive to be platform-agnostic, but many are now developing dedicated “apps” as well.
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An old analog pH meter seemed accurate enough, as long as the task didn’t require much accuracy. Today’s meters must be more accurate and provide more reproducible results. In some cases, pH meters do even more. Some customers want multifunction meters—a device might measure various parameters, including pH, conductivity, ion concentration, and oxidation reduction potential.
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