Naturally-occurring uranium has three isotopes: 234U, 235U, and 238U. 238U has the highest abundance at 99.3%. On the other hand, due to the uranium enrichment process, enriched uranium contains more 234U than natural uranium. Uranium enrichment is aimed at obtaining...
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Road Warriors, off to Winter Conference!
Brooks Applied Labs is going to the 2020 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry in Tucson January 13 - 18. Technical Director Hakan Gürleyük and Associate Research Chemist Nausheen Sadiq will be in attendance this year. In addition to the conference...
Educating the Next Generation of Metals Chemists
Dr. Hakan Gürleyük, Brooks Applied Labs’ Technical Director and Sr. Scientist, was recently a Chemistry Seminar Series guest lecturer at the University of Washington – Bothell’s School of STEM. On March 13th Hakan led a class of approximately 45 undergraduate...
In Case You Missed It
Team Brooks Applied Labs has been incredibly busy the past several weeks, with conference presentations locally, nationally, and internationally! Dr. Nausheen Sadiq presented on the analysis of iodine isotopes in kelp samples on February 13th at the European Winter...
BAL is On the Road Again…
BAL’s methods are predominantly based on ICP-MS technology so it should surprise no one that the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is one of the highlights of our year. This year’s conference takes place February 3-8 in Pau, France, and Dr. Nausheen Sadiq...
Quantifying Trace Selenium in Seawater
Brooks Applied Labs (BAL) is now offering the most innovative method commercially available for the quantitation of selenium in saline waters at concentrations as low as 5 ng/L (parts-per-trillion). BAL’s novel method utilizes in-line matrix component separation and...
Mark Your Calendars: BAL Giving ACS Webinar
On May 3rd, our Technical Director, Hakan Gürleyük, will be presenting a webinar sponsored by Agilent through ACS's Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). The title is "Why ICP-MS/MS? How Tandem MS Solves Analytical Problems and Improves Data Quality in a...
In Case You Missed It: BAL Presentations February – April
If you follow our newsletters, you probably have noticed that BAL staff have had a busy winter and spring attending and presenting at many conferences around the country and even overseas. In case you missed any of the announcements or would like a copy of the...