Tools Soil Preparation & Analysis
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Dry preparation room
This room has all the equipment necessary for the physical preparation of soil samples: a 5kg precision balance, a 750L Memmert oven, an ATM800 suction table (ASAIR), a PM100 planetary mill (Retsch), a Cryotec freeze-dryer as well as various sieves, quarters and decompaction bowls.
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Wet preparation room
This room is used to clean the equipment and to carry out the granulometric separation of soil samples (sampling of fractions <2µm). There is an Integral ultrapure water production systemã (Merck Millipore), a high-speed high-volume centrifuge RC5C (Sorvall Instruments) and a 150L WiseCubeã.
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Weighing room
Room equipped with a precision scale 10-4g and a 10-6g CPA26P (Sartorius).
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Preparation room for isotopic analysis
This room, which is halfway between a conventional chemistry laboratory and a clean room, allows the chemical preparation of samples for isotopic analyses (Fe, Cu, Zn, Pb, etc.) to be carried out under clean conditions. It is equipped with a vertical laminar flow hood in PP class 100 (ISO 5), evaporation chambers, a DST 1000 acid distiller (Savillex), a MiniSpin microcentrifuge (Eppendorf) and a Directã (Merck Millipore).
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Chemistry room
This room, equipped with a fume cupboard, a B180 muffle furnace (Nabertherm), a pH meter and a 53L Memmert oven, is used to carry out the classic chemistry manipulations of a laboratory.