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The MicroLab Advantage

MicroLab's 500-series instruments integrate FASTspec™ technology and the most commonly used chemical sensors into an affordable lab package that enables students to make almost every instrumental measurement required in general chemistry. The instruments' high-grade resolution coupled with powerful software will engage your students in the process of science.

Integrated sensors and sensor amplifiers prevent clutter from your bench tops, reduce cost, and allow for low-noise, high-resolution measurements. Small changes in chemical and biological systems are made evident as never before.

MicroLab products are used in general, analytical, physical, and biochemistry laboratory courses. They are also suitable for your undergraduate or graduate research programs, and in industry. The interfaces' dual AC / DC power supply permits use in the field as well as the laboratory.

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Introducing Visual Spectrometry

What's New
Some FS-522 FASTspec spectrophotometer measurements

What's New!

Software:

  • MicroLab software Version 5.9.7 is available for free download from the “Download” section of our web site.
  • This new software has a new spectrophotometer suite that integrates kinetics into the spectrophotometer program. There are four "x-axis" choices for recording spectrophotometric data:
  • Concentration - Beer's Law Experiment
  • Volume added - photometric titrations done in the spectrophotometer vial.
  • Fraction number - for analysis of liquid chromatography fractions
  • Time - for kinetics experiments
  • The regular curve fit choices have been expanded to include 1/A and In A so that students can identify zero order, first order, or second order kinetics reactions.

MicroLab Knowledge Base:

  • Check our MicroLab Knowledge Base in the menu bar – answers to Frequently Asked Questions and useful information for evaluating, setting up, and teaching with computer-based labs.

Coming Soon!

  • For analytical chemistry, a Coulometric Titration module that uses medical electronics techniques to isolate the pH measurement from the coulometric reaction. (March 2013)
  • For general chemistry, a new Energy of Light module that demonstrates the relationship between energy and the color, wavelength, and frequency of light. (Summer 2013)
  • For general and analytical chemistry, a new constant voltage power supply that produces voltage to 5 volts and current to 2 amps. It’s controlled voltage design and electronic current integrator prevent competing electrochemical reactions during quantitative electroplating experiments. (March 2013)
FASTspec™ 360-940 nm
scanning spectrophotometer

FASTspec™

  • Transmission
  • Absorbance
  • Kinetics-Absorbance
  • Kinetics-Scatter
  • Fluorescence
  • Color Comparison
  • Spectral Profiles
  • Beer's Law
Fluorescence of Chlorophyll when excited at 400 nm. Fluorescence measurements, made at 90° against a dark background, are highly sensitive.
MicroLab Conventions and Meetings
April
June
July
September
April 5-6, 2013
New Orleans, LA
Delgado Community College
200th 2YC3 Conference

April 7-11, 2013
New Orleans, LA
245th ACS National Meeting and Exposition
June 5-8, 2013
LaCrosse, WI
ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting

July 21-24, 2013
Corvallis, OR
ACS Northwest Regional Meeting
September 8-10, 2013
Indianapolis, IN
ACS National Meeting and Exposition
September 27-28, 2013
Delta College, University Center, MI
202nd 2YC3 Conference
  working in the lab with MicroLab