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Safeguarding Innovation | CAT Scientific Magnetic Stirrer Safety Elements
Whether you’re experimenting with a new formula or producing a solution for the 100th time, laboratory and processing safety is of the highest importance. CAT Scientific understands the value of safety for not only equipment operators, but also to retain the integrity of specimens and solutions. The principles of magnetic stirrers make these pieces of…
Read MoreSelecting an Overhead Stirrer
How to Specify an Overhead Stirrer If your laboratory or research organization is planning the purchase of an overhead stirrer there are a number of specification issues that should be addressed in writing up a purchase order. First of all, you’ve reached the conclusion that an overhead laboratory stirrer is required due to sample volumes…
Read MoreTitration with a Bottletop Burette
Simplify Titration with a Bottletop Burette Titration is a common laboratory exercise employed to determine the unknown concentration of a substance called the analyte (a.k.a. titrand or what you are analyzing for) in a solution. This is accomplished by carefully and precisely metering a reagent (a.k.a. titrant) into the solution until a reaction occurs. The…
Read MoreCalibrating a Bottletop Burette
When to Calibrate a Bottle Top Burette Let’s start with why we should calibrate a bottle top burette. Bottletop burets are designed to precisely meter reagents into a vessel until a reaction occurs. Accuracy is paramount, and in the case of burettes we’re talking in increments of micro liters (µl). Bottletop burettes are mechanical devices…
Read MoreBurette Glossary of Terms
A Bottle-Top Burette Glossary of Terms Scientific instruments including metering and dispensing equipment such as bottle top burettes have their own nomenclature. For the uninitiated this can cause vexation as one struggles to understand what is being talked about. We at CAT Scientific think it is helpful to provide definitions of terminology applied to bottletop…
Read MoreBottle-Top Burette Purchasing Decisions
What to Look for in a Bottle-Top Burette Burettes and their close cousin pipettes are used for precision metering and dispensing reagents into a solution, usually as part of performing a chemical analysis. Burets are glass tubes with capacity markings in milliliters. They have a valve at the bottom that is used by researchers to…
Read MoreSelecting Rotor-Stator Configurations
Lab Homogenizer Rotor-Stator Configurations Laboratory homogenizers such as offered by CAT Scientific are called on to perform multiple mixing, dispersing, and similar tasks to support R&D activity as well as to establish processing guideline that can be scaled up to commercial production. Modular lab homogenizers allow researchers to pair multiple rotor-stator configurations to suit the…
Read MoreHow to Use an Analytical Mill
Tips on Using CAT Analytical Mills As flow-through chambers increase the versatility of CAT Homogenizers, so too does the compact rugged AX 60 Analytical Mill. With this attachment on the CAT X1000 or X1000D drive motor you can quickly reduce hard substances – i.e. up to 9 on the Mohs scale of hardness – to…
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