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Many commercially available detergents are suitable for this purpose, and some manufacturers market special formulations for cleaning laboratory glassware some of these, e.g. Decon 90 made by Decon Laboratories of Portslade, are claimed to be specially effective in removing contamination due to radioactive materials. 

Adapting the system to a mobile unit involved redesigning the instrumentation for portability and mounting it into a 3 A x 5-ft steel cart. A major requirement for this unit was containment of the Line-Lite laser, optical elements, and detection module in a clean laboratory environment. Other requirements included high ground clearance, accessibility to electricity within 100 ft, and durable construction. The entire mobile unit can be powered by a 5-kW gasoline generator. 

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Patterson had identified lead as a source of pervasive, ambient pollution long before anyone else was even aware of its existence. By the time he earned his Ph.D. in 1951, the control blanks he processed in his laboratory contained only 0.1 millionth of a gram of lead, an impressive feat at the time. Today most clean laboratories can produce blanks with only a few trillionths of a gram. 

Over the next 30 years, Patterson used mass spectroscopy and clean laboratory techniques to demonstrate the pervasiveness of lead pollution. He traced the relationships between America s gas pump and its tuna sandwiches, between Roman slaves and silver dimes, and between Native American Indians and polar snows. He forged as close a connection between science and public policy as any physical scientist outside of medical research. He made the study of global pollution a quantitative science. And marrying his stubborn determination to his passionate conviction that science ought to serve society, Patterson never budged an inch. 

At a 1981 EPA conference called to discuss the issue, Patterson offered to train government scientists in his clean laboratory techniques. Soon afterward, a parade of key scientists visited Pasadena to study with Settle. Within six months, Patterson announced that the FDA had made considerable improvement both in its laboratory and in reducing lead levels in infant formula. 

For the pumping system, seawater was pumped up from 9 m and collected in the appropriate bottles on the raft and returned to the shore clean laboratory for preservation and/or analysis. For the other four sampling devices, the sampler was lowered to 9 m, allowed to equilibrate for 10 min, closed by triggering mechanism activated by the Teflon messenger, raised to the surface, transferred into the container, transported back by boat and trucked back... 

The clean laboratory for trace metals was divided into three areas entrance laboratory (with clothes changing annex), instrument laboratory, and ultraclean sample preparation laboratory, all under positive pressure with active charcoal filtered air. Personnel using the clean rooms were required to wear hair caps, polyethylene gloves, laboratory coats, and designated shoes. These items are worn only in the clean rooms. 

It is feasible to capture a large volume of seawater in the range of 65 000 1 by the CEPEX approach for the purpose of sampler intercomparison. It is possible by artificial stimulation of a plankton bloom and detritus removal to produce a reasonably homogeneous body of seawater for the study. Proximity of the in situ enclosure for the experiment and the on-shore, clean laboratory facilities eliminate errors introduced by shipboard contamination under less than ideal conditions on cruises. 

Zinc concentrations in freshwater, seawater, groundwater, sewage sludge, sediments, and soils are listed in Table 9.3. These data are considered reliable, although clean-laboratory techniques suggest that dissolved Zn concentrations in nonpolluted rivers may be 10 to 100 times lower than previously reported (Shiller and Boyle 1985). 

In this framework hazard assessment is mainly based on toxicity testing in clean laboratory conditions. Findings of laboratory studies are then extrapolated to higher levels of natural system hierarchy (from organisms to communities and even ecosystems) using various factors (Smrchek and Zeeman, 1998). 

However fascinated by the achievements in catalysis, one has always to keep in mind, that all those successes were made possible by the extensive research into the synthesis of new ligands and metal complexes, their structural characterization, and the meticulous studies on reaction kinetics with the new catalysts in model systems and in the desired applications. Only the synthetic and catalytic work, hand in hand, can lead to development of new, efficient and clean laboratory and industrial processes. 

Chromium(VI) oxide is used for chromium plating copper stripping as an oxidizing agent for conversion of secondary alcohols into ketones (Jones oxidation) as a corrosion inhibitor in purification of oil and in chromic mixtures for cleaning laboratory glassware. 

Although with samples as large as these, blanks are so small as to be negligible, precautions were taken to prevent unnecessary contamination. All processing was carried out in a Class 100 clean laboratory, and subsequent handling was done in small Class 100 clean air hoods. All equipment was specially cleaned, and all reagents were purified by a sub-boiling distillation technique known to reduce lead contamination to very low levels (14). The normal laboratory lead blank is 1-2 ng per analysis. 

The carbon surface concentration of 42.5% at 90° exit angle for water-sized fibers in Table 1 represents a high level of adventitious contamination, more typical of plant production than of fibers formed in a relatively clean laboratory environment, which typically show carbon levels of 25% to 35% on water-sized E glass [4, 7, 8]. This high level of adventitious carbon tends to obscure the... 

Nitric acid was being used to clean laboratory glassware to a very high state of surface cleanliness by soaking in a bucket of cone, acid for a week. During this time, one of the empty winchesters was inadvertently used as a solvent residues bottle and some 250 ml of diethyl ether was put in. The acid was to be recovered for re-use and it was put back into the original bottles. When the bottle containing ether was refilled and screw capped, after a few seconds it exploded violently [5]. 

A clean laboratory and equipment are undoubtedly crucial to all analytical methods. For trace element and POP measurements, however, additional precautions need to be taken. Glassware and other materials used for storing samples may act as both a source and a sink for some transition and heavy metal ions. Consequently, it is important to clean glassware and polyethylene equipment several times with dilute solutions of nitric acid followed by deionized water. Gloves must be worn whenever working with samples and sampling equipment. 

Prior to removal, equipment should be thoroughly cleaned. Laboratories and productions areas should be handed over to contractors in a clean state. 

If all the above precautions are taken, then the only remaining source of contamination is the person working with the cells. Personnel carry microorganisms on the clothes and on their person, especially on their hair. It is a good idea to wear a clean laboratory coat restricted to use in the cell culture laboratory and never to move from an animal house into a cell culture laboratory without changing laboratory coats. People with long hair should tie it back and wear a clean head covering. It is also recommended that face masks are used especially if there is any doubt about a person s health. 

It is obvious then that there is no single magic potion that can clean all glassware. Cleaning laboratory ware is an art and your knowledge of what solvents, or combinations of solvents, to use for any given contaminant will improve with experience. 

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