Portable laboratories

M. A. IT insky and G. Knorre proposed l-nitroso-2-naphthol as a reagent for cobalt and Zh.I. lotsich - magnesium diiodine acetylene as a reagent for carbonyl group. F.M. Flavitsky developed a method for qualitative analysis based on solid substances as well as a portable laboratory for qualitative analysis. G.V. Khlopin proposed a method for determining oxygen dissolved in water. 

Grunbaum, B. W. A Self-Contained and Portable Laboratory for Microchemical Analysis. Microchem. J. 9, 245 (1965). 

Portable laboratories were manufactured from the late eighteenth century onwards, and these cabinets of apparatus and chemicals enabled mineralogists to perform simple analytical operations in the field. However, they were soon acting as a source of both amusement and instruction, and are the forerunners of both modem chemistry sets and home experiment kits. Their history has been reviewed.290 One of... 

A book describing the development of chemistry in Britain over the period 1760-1820 in relation to the contemporary social context makes repeated reference to analytical chemistry. One of the themes developed is that chemistry in general, and analytical chemistry in particular, was seen as a means to social improvement through its applications in agricultural chemistry and mineral analysis. The availability and relative simplicity of much of the apparatus (e.g. the portable laboratories referred to earlier) meant that the appropriate analyses could be widely performed. Chemical analysis also held out the prospect of advances in medicine by applying both simple techniques and the latest technology, especially the voltaic pile, to attempts to analyse body fluids.335... 

Bingham D, Kendall J, Clancy M. The portable laboratory an evaluation of the accuracy and reproducibility of I-STAT. Ann Clin Biochem 1999 36 66-71. 

Gee, B. 1989, Amusement Chests and Portable Laboratories Practical Alternatives to the Regular Laboratory , in F.A.J.L. James (ed.). The Development of the Laboratory, Macmillan, Basingstoke/London, pp. 37-59. 

R.B. Ede, Practical Facts In Chemistry, Exemplifying the Rudiments and Showing with What Facility the Principles of the Science May Be Experimentally Demonstrated at a Trifling Expense by Means of Simple Apparatus Portable Laboratories, More Particularly in Reference to Those by Robert Best Ede, Thomas Tegg, and Simkin, Marshall, and Co., London, 1839. Issued and bound with Robert Best Edes Series of Chemical Laboratories and Chests, with Appropriate Companions, Also, Mineralogical Boxes, Labels and Other Select and Approved Articles, dated Eebruary 1837. 

Peter Shaw and Francis Hauksbee, Essay for introducing a Portable Laboratory,—, London, 1731. 

They did, and one used it as the basis for an application to the Institute of France. Gay-Lussac, on the application-review committee, was given a sample, and a sample was also given to Davy. Although Davy was aware of the prior work in France, where the substance was known as iode because of the violet color of its vapor, he announced that the new substance and its compounds would provide enough work to occupy several chemists and at any rate French chemists could benefit from another point of view. Working in his hotel with a portable laboratory that he had brought with him, Davy satisfied himself that the new material was a element with chemical properties similar to those of chlorine, and he announced the element iodine. 

Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, containing an Account of several surprizing Phenomena touching L ht and Electricity, 8°, 1709 2 ed., 1719 and two posthumous works. Proposal for a Course of Chemical Experiments, 1731, and An Essay for introducing a Portable Laboratory, 1731. 

The high separation efficiency of capillary electrophoresis is valuable for the analysis of proteins (27) however the concentration detection limits for UV absorbance detection is limited to the micromolar range. Capillary zone electrophoresis with laser induced fluorescent detection (CE-LIF) is an attractive technology because of its ultra-low sensitivity detection limits. (28) Further sensitivity can be gained by using a state-of-the art sheath-flow cuvette flow chamber. (29) A field portable, sheath flow cuvette based CE-LIF instrument has been constructed (Figure 3) for analysis of proteins in field and portable laboratories. 

U. Burchard [10.1] has described the whole history of the blowpipe. In his paper he also presents a comprehensive publications hst and beautiful color photos of blowpipes and portable laboratories. 

According to von Engestrom, Cronstedt was a pioneer in using portable laboratories for mineral analysis in the field. Eigure 10.3 shows Torbern Bergman s portable laboratory with a silver blowpipe. 

Figure 10.3 Components in Torbern Bergman s portable laboratory.

Shaw P, Hauksbee F (1731) An Essay for Introducing a Portable Laboratory By means whereof all the Chemical Operations are Commodiously Perform d for the Purposes of Philosophy, Medicine, Metallurgy, and a Family. J. Osborn and T. Longman, London, p 41... 

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