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Title: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: Barnett8 on February 12, 2010, 03:32:01 PM: I am about to do my grad project (for high school) on the Tadahiko Mizuno high temperature plasma experiment. My Question is: Is there a company that I can send my products to to get them analyzed to see what is in them (my high school doesn't have a spectrometer)?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: Golden_4_Life on February 12, 2010, 04:03:52 PM: We're not sure why a high school faculty member would sanction a research project without having the required technical instrumentation? Especially at the highschool level where everything is simple. :o
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: Barnett8 on February 12, 2010, 04:42:05 PM: This isn't a sanctioned experiment. I'm just doing it for fun/as required research for me to graduate. I could have done anything, but I picked this because it is a topic that interests me. :)

Are there such places that I could send my samples to be analyzed?
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: MOTOBALL on February 13, 2010, 11:55:39 AM: Are you looking for UV/vis, IR, Mass, NMR soectrometry etc. ???

Google "Contract Research Labs." and you will find many---but don't be surprised that your school chem. dept. will not have the $ $ $ required.

Motoball
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: Barnett8 on February 13, 2010, 12:08:28 PM: Thanks Motoball. I was just having a hard time figuring out what the companies were called. :)

I am looking for mass spectrometry. ;)
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: MOTOBALL on February 13, 2010, 08:12:36 PM: Can somebody tell me where this came from in my earlier reply ? If not, please report to moderator since it will not let me report my own post.

[img]http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi?

I had typed in three dollar signs to denote high cost

Motoball
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: Borek on February 14, 2010, 04:04:37 AM: Dollars mark TEX code, forum software attempted to format your post.
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: JGK on February 16, 2010, 12:52:03 PM: I don't know where you are located in the world but for MS and compound identification you will be looking at several hundred dollars per sample especially for multi component identification.
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: cpncoop on February 20, 2010, 09:03:41 PM: You could attempt to email Pfizer or a similar company.... I know that when I was in grad school they were happy to run the occasional sample on a pro-bono basis just for "furthering" science.... Also, if you talk to a local college or university, they may be able to help you.

A contract company will charge you about 100 bucks per sample...
Title: Re: Where can I send away for spectrometry.
Post by: JGK on February 22, 2010, 03:06:21 PM: Quote from: cpncoop on February 20, 2010, 09:03:41 PM
A contract company will charge you about 100 bucks per sample...

If you're lucky! the charge our company was paying ran between $200 - 500 per sample (2008 Prices), depending on what needed doing. charges were lowest if we supplied the MS operating conditions and did our own spectral interpretation.