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New Product: Test Kits for Film Forming Amines Utilizing Rose Bengal Chemistry

Two New Filming Amine Test Kits Available CHEMetrics has developed new test kits utilizing the Rose Bengal chemistry for measuring residual film forming amines (FFA) in boiler systems. K-1013 features our Vacu-vials® ampoules and is compatible with a CHEMetrics V-3000 photometer or spectrophotometers that accept a 13mm round cell. Alternatively, a K-1013 DR 900 user…

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VACUettes Packaging will now have the tips in a small plastic box within a resealable plastic bag.

Upcoming Changes to CHEMetrics VACUettes® High Range Visual Colorimetric Tests

What is Changing? In the coming days you will notice a change to the packaging for all VACUettes products. The VACUettes capillary tips will no longer be attached to the test ampoule. Instead, the tips will now be supplied in a small plastic box packaged alongside the CHEMets refill containing the ampoules. If you are…

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The Measurement of Dissolved Ozone in Water

Why Measure Ozone in Water? Ozone (O3) treatment has become an important tool for water quality engineers. As new more stringent requirements from regulators and customers must be met, ozone is often the oxidizer and disinfectant of choice for a wide range of process applications. Ozonation is used for viral, bacterial, and parasitic disinfection, the…

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How to Run a CHEMetrics COD Test

What Is a COD Test? A Chemical Oxygen Demand, or COD test, measures how much dissolved oxygen (DO) is consumed by the oxidation of organic matter and inorganic compounds such as ammonia or nitrite under controlled conditions. COD is widely recognized as an indicator of wastewater influent and effluent quality. COD analysis is typically performed…

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How To Read a CHEMetrics Comparator

What Is a Comparator? A comparator is a set of sealed ampoules containing color standards made of dye mixtures that closely match the color (hue) and intensity of CHEMetrics test ampoules when the tips are snapped in solutions of corresponding analyte concentrations. By sealing the dyes in ampoules, we can more closely recreate the color…

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Food and Beverage Industry: Measurement of Hydrogen Peroxide at Critical Control Points

Food and beverage packaging takes many shapes and forms in today’s marketplace. In an effort to maintain grocery shelf-life and flavor quality, these products are processed and assembled by sophisticated packaging equipment that has evolved away from traditional bottling and canning methods. Systems of quality control in the food and beverage industry have become more…

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NEW A-2024 Ammonia Single Analyte Meter Now Available

A New Meter for Measuring Ammonia To provide even more convenient water testing options, CHEMetrics now offers the A-2024 Single Analyte Meter (SAM) for the measurement of ammonia in water. The A-2024 SAM is an affordable portable ammonia photometer designed to work with the currently available K-1413 and K-1513 Ammonia Vacu-vials test kits. Whether you…

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CHEMetrics Introduces NEW Extended Shelf Life Nessler Ammonia Vacu-vials® Water Analysis Kit

  CHEMetrics announces the release of a new Vacu-vials test kit which employs the Direct Nesslerization method to measure ammonia in drinking water, clean surface water, good-quality nitrified wastewater effluent, and seawater. The new K-1513 instrumental test kit offers an extended shelf-life advantage over our existing K-1503 and K-1523 Nessler ammonia Vacu-vials test kits. K-1513…

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CHEMetrics Introduces Two NEW Sensitive Nitrite Water Analysis Kits

CHEMetrics announces the release of two new test kits employing the N-(1-Naphthyl)ethylenediamine (NED) method to measure nitrite in potable water, surface water, stormwater, groundwater, seawater and wastewater. With a reduced analysis time and improved measurement sensitivity, these new kits offer advantages over the existing CHEMetrics nitrite test kits which employ a different diazo dye reagent,…

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New Monochloramine Water Analysis Test Kits

CHEMetrics is pleased to announce the release of two new test kits employing the hydroxybenzyl alcohol  (HBA) method to measure monochloramine in water. These test kits are perfect for drinking water and wastewater testing applications in the field and lab. This method measures only monochloramine and expresses the results as ppm (mg/L) monochloramine as chlorine…

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