WITH OVER 400 JARRELL-ASH ICP'S INSTALLED WORLDWIDE, THERE'S BOUND TO BE AN APPLICATION JUST LIKE YOURS. If you have a difficult applications problem, you may not care that Jarrell-Ash has the broadest line of ICP spectrometers. What you want to know is whether one of ours can be set up and run just to handle your individual analysis problem. That's where experience counts. Jarrell-Ash experience. And technical expertise. Here's a sample of a few of our installations. See how close we come to yours. GEOLOGICAL MAPPING. • For the USGS, ICP analysis of mountain streams maps the location of mineral deposits.
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MINERAL • ASSAY. Mines use our ICP V ' to assay minerals and ores.
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CATALYTIC POISONS. Oil companies measure the levels of nickel and vanadium which inhibit the cracking process in crude oil.
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SEWAGE. The State of New • York looks for toxic metals in sewage and sludge using ICP. DRY CELL BATTERIES. • Manganese poisons nickel/cadmium and lead dry cells. Prest-O-Lite uses ICP to make sure that starting materials are manganese-free.
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OIL EXPLORATION. Analysis • of surface samples indicates the presence of oil hundreds of feet below the surface.
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SOIL EVALUATION • Farmer's coopéra tives measure the level of micronutrients in soil samples.
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FOOD. The FDA • uses ICP to measure mercury levels in fish.
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CHEMICAL QUALITY • CONTROL. Monsanto, Dow and Union Carbide check the purity of laboratory and in dustrial chemicals. MEDICAL IMPLANTS. The FDA makes sure there there are no toxic metals in cardiac pacemakers, catheters and other implantables.
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EXHAUST EMISSIONS. ICP helps engineers reduce the toxicity of exhaust at Ford.
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WEAR METALS IN OIL. • At McDonnell-Douglas and General Electric, analysis of engine lubricants tells which " " i engine parts ' are wearing.
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DRUG EVALUATION. • Hoffman-LaRoche checks drug purity with ICP. INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS. • The EPA tests air quality with ICP. m A PLATING BATHS. ICP I ^9Φ can measure the level of precious metals in plating baths. • # % BABY FOOD QUALITY. I ^ F · When Mead-Johnson certifies the nutritional element content of their baby foods, it's ICP results that stand by that guarantee.
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PHOTO• GRAPHIC MATERIALS. Kodak j uses ICP to measure Jj the levels of silver metal in film and paper. *%m BIOLOGICAL SUBj&M· STANCES. Biologists and the USDA determine the migratory patterns of birds and insects by measuring the trace element composition of their tissue.
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CERAMICS AND EPOXIES. • Starting materials for s ceramic, epoxy and glassy carbon production can be measured for fracture-inducing elements.
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SULFUR IN COAL. Steel mills assay coke for sulfur and other elements that NUTRITION. ICP analysis of • hair can diagnose the nutri- affect the quality of steel. tional state of human subjects.
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