10th February 2021
Basel Convention – Treaty for Hazardous Waste
What is the Basel Convention? The Basel Convention is an international treaty on the Control…
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5th February 2021
Nutella Day: Testing the Rheology of Nutella
The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a…
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21st January 2021
Veganuary Story: How Polymers saved Animals
What is Veganuary? Since 2014, January has a different connotation than just “January Blues”, due…
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18th December 2020
Real or Artificial Christmas Tree: Which is better?
Is a real or artificial Christmas tree more environmentally friendly? There is a lot of…
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15th December 2020
Oil Analysis via ICP-OES – Testing and Predictive Maintenance
What is oil analysis? Oil analysis is a test that is used to identify toxic…
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11th November 2020
UVC Testing – Impact of UVC Exposure on Materials
Given the global pandemic and severe threat of COVID-19, there has been a huge spike…
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9th November 2020
BS EN 15344 – Characterisation of Polyethylene
A way that we traditionally use to save resources, such as raw material, water and…
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4th November 2020
Differential Techniques for Elemental Analysis – RoHS
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy is primarily used for elemental analysis. Other equipment used in elemental analysis are the GC-MS (Gas Chromatography –…
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30th October 2020
Properties of Spiders Silk – Tensile Strength
Discovering materials and replicating them synthetically is something that humans have been doing for centuries. Spiders silk,…
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2nd September 2020
Plastic PPE: Disposal and Waste
There has been a war against plastic going on for many years, encouraging consumers to…
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