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Common FAQs and Considerations on Calibration Weights

Used across a multitude of scientific and industrial settings, balance and calibration weights play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and precision of measurement equipment in quantitative analysis.

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Improving Lab Balance Performance with Reliable Accessories

Lab balance accessories such as balance tables, marble balance tables, anti-vibration tables, draft shields, and balance platforms are necessary to achieve precise and reliable measurements in any laboratory setting.

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Maximize Safety While Minimizing Risk With Dedicated Aseptic Donning

Controlled environments face challenges to select PPE that provides functional and complaint attributes. Simplifying donning while maintaining an aseptic environment has proven to reduce contamination risk. 

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Choosing Personalized Autosampler Vials for Analytical Labs

Researchers in analytical laboratories need reliable autosampler vials to protect against sample leakage, contamination, and evaporation. As the building blocks of auto-sampling systems, autosampler vials facilitate a smooth sample introduction into the chromatographic system.

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How to choose automatic bottle-top liquid dispensers for your lab needs

In our post-COVID world, touchless technology has inched into many aspects of our lives. These technologies help stop the spread of COVID and other viruses, and specifically, automatic liquid dispensers for laboratories can prevent cross-contamination in the lab to protect experimental integrity and produce viable outcomes.

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Benefits and Considerations of Bead Tissue and Cell Homogenizers

Breaking down, mixing, and blending substances into a consistent solution is a cornerstone of many scientific experiments. Bead tissue and cell homogenizers, such as bead homogenizers, glass homogenizers, and high-speed homogenizers, are specialized laboratory instruments compatible with a range of lab purposes.

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Choosing and caring for your lab beakers

When people think of labs, they think of beakers. Beakers are so widely recognized due to their applications and reliability in almost all experiments. Lab beakers assist with stirring, mixing, measuring, heating liquids, and general laboratory safety.

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Managing The Removal and Collection of Liquids with Aspirator Bottles

Aspirator bottles come in many models such as media bottles, narrow-mouth bottles, and Boston round bottles. Each is essential in laboratory settings for storing and dispensing distilled water and other fluids.

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Choosing The Right Laboratory Aprons

Remember wearing the musty old lab aprons in middle and high school on the infamous dissection days? Designed to shield users from hazardous substances (chemicals, acids, oils), laboratory aprons are essential personal protective gear used in even the most “simple” experiments.

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Precision, Versatility, and Sterility: Common FAQs on Applicators & Swabs

To achieve ongoing optimal results in laboratory processes, Thomas Scientific meticulously engineers applicators and swabs with reliability, convenience, and consistency.

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The Big 3 of Contamination Prevention: Antibiotics, Antimycotics & Preservatives

Thomas Scientific houses an extensive range of antibiotics, antimycotics, and preservatives compatible with various lab applications. Antibiotics, antimycotics, and preservatives are used in many contexts, including small animal surgery and agriculture, to ensure health and prevent contamination.

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Ethical Tools Compatible with the Intricacies of Mouse Surgery

The delicate requirements of veterinary and biomedical research surgeries require specialized instruments to ensure precision, safety, and support.

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Comprehensive Weighing Solutions: Analytical Balances and Accessories

Designed for measuring varying masses with high accuracy, analytical balances are precision instruments essential in applications involving minute substance quantities, such as in pharmaceutical research and chemical analysis.

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Creating and Protecting Anaerobic Environments with Anaerobic Systems and Jars

In anaerobic experiments and chemical reactions devoid of oxygen, anaerobic systems minimize contamination risks and maximize control. Anaerobic systems precisely control anaerobic conditions and ensure no oxygen enters the system.

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Laboratory Hot Plates: Consistent Heating and Mixing Solutions

Laboratory hot plates can deliver consistent and even heating and mixing of various types of liquids and solutions. These essential benchtop tools achieve temperature stability, uniform heating, and heat resistance while offering programmable settings, safety features, and energy efficiency.

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Choosing the right DNA Amplification instruments

As molecular biologists face sample quality issues and availability, they need reliable sealing solutions to prevent evaporation and cross-contamination while concurrently improving the reproductivity of experimental results.

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Manipulating the Heating and Cooling Cycles with Aluminum Cooling Blocks

Aluminum cooling blocks are essential laboratory tools that ensure precise temperature control in sampling preparation and preservation techniques.

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From Contaminants to Clarity: The Role of Precise Air Sampling Technology in Ensuring Safe Lab Air Quality

When collecting air samples for purposes such as environmental monitoring, contamination assessment, and microbial analysis, air samplers are a crucial and reliable resource for detecting air contaminants.

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Beyond the Kitchen and into the Lab: How can Aluminum Heat Sealing Foil’s Properties Protect Sample Integrity

For centuries, we’ve relied on aluminum foil in our homes to preserve and protect leftovers from light, moisture, and oxygen because its heat-sealing capabilities, durability, and recyclable properties make it an indispensable tool. 

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Ensuring True Compliance with NSF/ANSI 456 Vaccine Storage Standards

In the ever-evolving world of vaccine storage, maintaining the integrity and safety of vaccines is paramount. The NSF/ANSI 456 standard has been established to ensure that refrigeration units meet stringent performance criteria for temperature uniformity, stability, and recovery. However, recent marketing claims by some manufacturers may not be fully backed by actual performance, raising concerns about the validity of these claims.

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How Can 96-Well Plates Enhance Cell Culture Optimization?

When growing and analyzing cells under controlled conditions, 96-well plates are an indispensable tool to leverage.

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Enhance Your Laboratory Efficiency with 2D Barcoded Technologies

2D barcoded storage tubes are essential for modern laboratory storage solutions, offering a reliable way to catalog and track samples with unparalleled accuracy.

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Unraveling the Versatility of Improvacuter: A Journey from Blood Tubes to Boundless Applications

In the realm of medical diagnostics, one remarkable tool that has revolutionized the process of blood sample collection and analysis is the Improvacuter tube. 

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Revolutionizing Sustainability

Whirl-Pak's flexible pouches are a game-changing solution for businesses looking to enhance their sustainability efforts. Whirl-Pak containers offer a lightweight, efficient alternative to traditional rigid bottles, reducing waste, emissions, & water usage during their lifecycle.

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Exploring Innovation: Thomas Scientific and NASPO ValuePoint Partnership

Through the Thomas Scientific-NASPO ValuePoint partnership, state governments and educational institutions gain access to an extensive catalog of laboratory supplies, equipment, and services from trusted brands.

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Sep30

Common FAQs and Considerations on Calibration Weights

Used across a multitude of scientific and industrial settings, balance and calibration weights play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy and precision of measurement equipment in quantitative analysis.

Read More >

Sep27

Improving Lab Balance Performance with Reliable Accessories

Lab balance accessories such as balance tables, marble balance tables, anti-vibration tables, draft shields, and balance platforms are necessary to achieve precise and reliable measurements in any laboratory setting.

Read More >

Sep26

Maximize Safety While Minimizing Risk With Dedicated Aseptic Donning

Controlled environments face challenges to select PPE that provides functional and complaint attributes. Simplifying donning while maintaining an aseptic environment has proven to reduce contamination risk.

Read More >