Archive For December, 2009
A recent report by the Environmental Working Group, often abbreviated as EWG, stated that after reviewing millions of records from state water officials across the country they believe nearly 54 million Americans have ‘polluted’ drinking water coming from their taps.
After examining the water quality in a selection of 100 cities, each containing more than 250k [...]
Many people believe that the passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act by Congress a while back guarantees the safety and purity of drinking water for everyone in the United States. WRONG!
The Safe Drinking Water Act contains regulations governing the levels of specific contaminants in drinking water but not ALL of the potential contaminants [...]
Whether testing for chlorine in drinking water, pool water, or water about to go into an a aquarium, the fact remains that a person needs to have fast, accurate chlorine testing methods readily available. www.Chlorine-Test-Kit.com provides links to chlorine testing meters, liquid kits for chlorine testing, replacement reagents for chlorine testing, and test strips for [...]
As we prepared to post the last entry on glass transition temperature we figured that somehow we would get drawn back to the topic of polymer testing. Apparently we figured correctly because someone just asked us about differential scanning calorimetry. Wikipedia defines differential scanning calorimetry in the following manner: Differential scanning calorimetry or DSC is [...]
We talk all the time about the importance of having safe, clean drinking water available for consumption but we seldom address another point: Drinking ENOUGH safe, clean water.
Water: indeed you are what you drink and should take care of your body of water. A baby is almost 90% water but this % reduces continuously to [...]
Sam from Idaho asked, Our main (plastic) resin supplier infomred us that we have 3 months to find somewhere else to purchase a certain resin from because they will no longer manufacture it after that time. Yeah, sure, we can stock up on the stuff, but eventually we will need anoter resin source. We asked [...]