Best practices dictate that pipettes undergo preventive maintenance and calibration at least once per year. Calibration involves dispensing set volumes of a liquid, usually water, into the weighing pan of a calibrated balance.

The expanded features in today’s pH meters reflect the broad use of this technology.

Nobody gets excited about lab ovens, but they are definitely essential lab components. Ovens are found in almost every industrial, research and development laboratory.

Microwave digestion is the preparation method of choice for analyzing metals in complex mixtures.

Low-temperature laboratory freezers will achieve temperatures of -40°C to -85°C, much lower than their kitchen-based counterparts.

A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) serves as the interface to a laboratory’s data, instruments, analyses and reports.

The question of limited access or general access to laboratory goods and services applies to a range of instruments, utilities, and competencies.

Turning a sample into a suspension—the essence of homogenizing— occurs in a wide range of laboratory applications.

Glove boxes are specialty enclosures that allow tight control over experimental conditions. Sizes range from less than five to several hundred cubic feet.

If you’ve had to lug a tank of gas to an experiment station and secure it in place, you know the hassle and danger involved.

The technology behind visible light microscopes, the oldest true laboratory instruments, has not changed much in fundamental operation in 200 years.

Time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) works by imparting equal energies to all fragments. Since smaller particles thereby travel faster, their masses are determined by how quickly they travel from the source to the detector.