Made by floating molten glass on a bed of molten metal, float glass is made most commonly from soda-lime glass and has a uniform thickness and a very flat surface. You will find most modern windows are made from float glass. Tin is the most common molten metal used to manufacture float glass. It leaves a residue on one side of the glass panel which you can't see with the naked eye, but can b...
Disposable cuvettes are used in many labs where cross contamination of samples is a concern or where the cost of quartz or glass cuvettes is too high. Some disposable plastic cuvettes are not compatible with many common solvents, but the UV-Cuvette range from Brand offers excellent chemical compatibility, as well as high quality, in a disposable cuvette. [caption id="attachment_7087" alig...
Phosphor is used for postcode tagging dots and on the postage stamps of Great Britain from the 1960's onwards. Is also present on stamps from Canada (older issues), Finland, Greece, Israel, Mexico (older issues) and the USA. Shortwave UV 254nm - 266nm is used to check for the presence of phosphorescence. A mini UV lamp is ideal for detection of phosphorous and Camlab have a range of lamps avai...
Ethidium bromide (Et/Br) is the most commonly used stain for detecting DNA/RNA. The reason for this is its sensitivity and yields a low background and detection limit. The image below shows bands in gel with EtBr and how they fluoresce under UV light. But the major drawback to EtBr is that the it is a potent mutagen and solutions must Be handled with extreme caution and decontaminated pr...
