Category: Laboratory Safety

Laboratory chemicals are stable only within prescribed temperature limits. High purity chemicals used as reference standards require preservation in low temperatures so that the concentration…

Filtration of the precipitate from supernatant solution used to be a common laboratory practice in earlier days. The operation was simple to carry out as…

The laboratory environment requires control through proper humidity and air ventilation and carrying out all hazardous operations in fume hoods. At times, however, you may…

Laboratories hold potential risk of fire accidents due to presence of flammable materials. Fire hazards in the laboratory covers groupings of flammable liquids, solids and gases…

Cryogens are essential requirements in research and analytical testing laboratories . They help improve the sensitivity and resolution of some analysis techniques to levels which are…

Liquid nitrogen and liquid helium are two common cryogens found in laboratories housing sophisticated analytical instruments. Both exist as harmless gases at room temperature but have…