Comment · Fri, June 19, 2020 · ND Owner
🔬 Lab Update: Buchi Rotovapor, Buchi Lyovapor, and Buchi Flash Chromatograph/Prep HPLC 🔬
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 55 points
I figured I would give another quick lab update. We got a few new things in from Buchi that we will be using a lot over the course of the year. They actually arrived a little while back, but COVID-19 has put delays on installing and using them. I've spoken a few times on here about it, but I have always been frustrated by the lack of reference standards for certain things. There are so many cool plants out there without any reference standards for their active ingredients! So we are left unable to properly standardize for the things in those plants that we want. If Sigma or USP didn't carry the standards, we were kind of out of luck. We were forced to just do extraction ratios and wait for the standards to eventually become available. Well I decided that was not a good enough solution. So now we are building out the capability in our lab for us to create our own reference standards!
Here is the Buchi C-850 dual flash chromatograph/preparatory HPLC with both UV and ELSD detector.
Many of you already know what an HPLC system is. It's a machine that uses columns and solvents to separate out compounds from each other through a liquid mobile phase. Thos…
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baronjpetor · 7 points
Congrats, this is pretty impressive!
As a suggestion, I think it would be interesting to cross-post all your lab updates on ND's blog (or on a static page). It would be a great resource for non-redditors who don't really now the brand and want to know more about your quality processes.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That's in the works. We are going to be doing a whole section of the site on that lab.