RACI WA Event: Laboratory Tour of Microanalysis
Thank you Paula McLay for writing this fabulous account of April’s RACI WA Event at Microanalysis. We thoroughly enjoyed hosting this event. The evening of Tuesday April 18 was clear and cool: a perfect day for a RACI Members Monthly Meeting. This was a special event – a laboratory tour of Microanalysis. And as our […]
Asbestos Hazardous If Ingested
Asbestos – Definitely Not Dietary Fibre If ingesting asbestos is potentially carcinogenic – and all of our old water pipes are made of asbestos cement resulting in high levels of asbestos in our drinking water – it is time to determine just what level of asbestos in drinking water is ‘safe’. Everybody knows breathing asbestos […]
Crystallography – A Quick Tutorial in XRD
The majority of things around you (and inside you!) are made of atoms. Atoms are arranged in some sort of order – they can be found in meandering long chain molecules in fats and proteins and the like, in cute little pairs or triplets floating around as gases, or arranged in military order in iron […]
AXAA Conference & Workshops 2017
February got off to a flying start with Ian and I heading to Melbourne for the Australian X-ray Analytical Association Workshops, Conference and Exhibitions. Nathan Webster of CSIRO and his team at AXAA did a fantastic job of compiling an interesting mix of speakers covering innovations and developments in x-ray diffraction and x-ray fluorescence techniques […]
Corrosivity Testing for Bulk Shipping
DIN’t you hear? Corrosivity testing for bulk shipping is having an overhaul. As many of you are aware, shipping requirements regulations are constantly being updated to ensure maritime and dockside safety. One of the recent focal points has been the determination of Class 8 and MHB corrosivity in bulk cargoes. Late last year AMSA released […]
