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There are two important safety measures that can be taken at very low cost. The first is to equip shelves with guard rails to keep reagent bottles from falling. The height of such rails should be adapted to the size of the containers. This is a requirement in California. The second is to fasten tall objects to the wall, a simple and inexpensive procedure. With bookcases, for example, the books may fall out but the case will stay in position and not tumble down with the whole load. 

A brief clarification needs to be made about ESD sensitivity. As ESD is the most difficult form of insult to guard against, great attention needs to be paid to materials that exhibit high sensitivity to it. ESD initiation sensitivity was measured for only the purest form of TATP. As in all other forms of insult, the pure TATP was only slightly more sensitive than PETN. A standard deviation was done for the measurements. Using simple statistical analysis, it can be shown that TATP will initiate approximately 1 to 2% of the time with energies as low as... 

In addition to the commercially available systems, several authors have described laboratory-built systems using commercially available components from companies such as Upchurch Scientific (Oak Harbor, WA). One of the first reported laboratory-built micro-bore HPLC systems was described by Simpson and Brown, which was a simple adaptation of a standard HPLC system to accept micro-bore columns built from guard columns. A complete system has been described based on dual microdialysis syringe pumps (CMA Microdialysis, Chelmsford, M A) or dual syringe pumps (Harvard Apparatus, Inc., Holliston, MA), a microinjection port, and a micro-column the latter components being obtained from Upchurch scientific (Figure 3.5). This system was coupled with a laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detector and used to measure neuropeptides in sub-microliter samples. A further modification of this system was built to perform immunoaffinity isolations of biomedically important analytes from clinical samples. ... 

Electrical Measurements. Dielectric and I-V characteristics were determined on simple guard ring-dot MIS structures consisting of A1 - polyimide - degenerate silicon of resistivity 0 -. 02 ficm. 

The aminopropylsilyl guard column is required for complex matrices with low sugar content. Simple matrices with high sugar content do not require the guard column. Other parameters may need adjustment in order to optimize the chromatography. 

Rezk et al. [74] developed and validated a reversed-phase HPLC assay method for the simultaneous quantitative determination of omeprazole and its three metabolites in human plasma. The method provides excellent chromatographic resolution and peak shape for the four components and the internal standard within a 17-min run time. The simple extraction method results in a clean baseline and relatively high extraction efficiency. The method was validated over the range of 2-2000 ng/ml. The resolution and analysis for the four analytes omeprazole, hydroxyome-prazole, omeprazole sulfone, and omeprazole sulfide and the internal standard utilized a Zorbax C18 (15 cm x 3 mm, 5 /im) with a Zorbax C18 (12.5 cm x 4.6 mm) guard column. The mobile phase consisted of two components. Mobile phase A was 22 mM phosphate monobasic, adjusted to a pH of 6 with diluted sodium hydroxide. This solution was filtered through a 0.45-/im membrane filter, then mixed as 900 ml buffer to 100 ml methanol. Mobile phase B was composed of 100 ml of the phosphate buffer as mobile phase A, mixed with 800 ml of acetonitrile, 100 ml of methanol, and 100 /A of trifluoroacetic acid with an initial flow-rate of 0.55 ml/min and detection at 302 nm. 

Analytical Methods. Samples were analyzed by HPLC using one of two types of column a Bio-Rad HPX87H+ (acid) column or a Bio-Rad Micro-Guard cation-H cartridge, with 0.015N phosphoric acid eluant and an UV absorbance detector. The cation-H cartridges were used to get elution of simple urea compounds in less than 15 minutes, compared to over 2 hours on the acids column. Samples were filtered (0.45 micron pores) before injection. 

The outlet valve, protected by a metal guard, is made of rubber. It is a simple but effective device which allows the exhaled air to pass out of the facepiece but otherwise remains clo. cd, preventing any air from being drawn into the ma.sk through the outlet iwirlion of the angle tiil e. 

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