SciAps True Demo Stories

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LIBS for museum collections: Q & A with Russell Harmon

Diggity July 27, 2021 LIBS, True Demo Stories

In the recent article, “Analysis of Garnet by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy—Two Practical Applications,” (Minerals 11, 705 (2021)), Drs. Russell Harmon, Michael Wise, Richard Hark and Ph.D. student Peter Defnet evaluated two practical applications of LIBS that could be implemented with ...

SciAps Handheld LIBS for detecting banned ski waxes

Instant Detection of Banned Fluorinated Ski Waxes with Handheld LIBS

Diggity April 13, 2021 ApNote, LIBS, News & Press, True Demo Stories

Eight cross-country ski sections were evaluated in a blind study to determine if fluorine could be correctly identified. Iron-on fluoro-powders and fluorinated paraffins for skis offer unmatched glide properties and repel dirt exceptionally well. They have been used by many ...

X-550 falls 35 feet – and still testing!

rickpick November 25, 2020 Geochemistry, NDT/PMI, News & Press, True Demo Stories, XRF

Other portable XRF manufacturers talk about their drop test ratings – dropping their XRF units 3 or 4 feet onto a plywood surface. Big deal. Any XRF can survive that. We drop ours off a 35’ platform onto a brick floor, bust ...

American biotech uses SciAps X-505 in the fight against Covid-19

Diggity November 13, 2020 News & Press, True Demo Stories, XRF

When SciAps released the SciAps X-505 handheld X-ray fluorescence analyzer in January 2020, they never imagined that it would be deployed by a Texas company to fight the spread of a global pandemic. SciAps innovation has always been driven by the ...

Tube-end alloy analysis with HH LIBS

Diggity September 18, 2020 LIBS, NDT/PMI, True Demo Stories

When James Terrell of SciAps arrived at a customer location to train the team on how to use LIBS for testing Low Re material, no one was expecting that the day would produce a groundbreaking solution using SciAps Z-200 C+. ...

SciAps LIBS for Petrography with Gerard Moulzolf

Diggity September 1, 2020 Featured News, Geochemistry, LIBS, News & Press, True Demo Stories

Copyright History Channel You may have seen Gerard Moulzolf during his appearances on the History Channel’s "Lost Gold of World War II." But did you know that his work with American Engineering Testing, Inc. has helped them become one of the top ...

NASA relies on the science of SciAps Z

Diggity July 22, 2020 Geochemistry, LIBS, News & Press, True Demo Stories

Preparing to explore the surface of the Moon requires the best available science. In their training, NASA astronauts use the SciAps LIBS handheld analyzer in unique areas on Earth to simulate the geology they may find on the moon. They ...

L-grade stainless verification on small parts? No problem

Diggity March 9, 2020 LIBS, NDT/PMI, News & Press, True Demo Stories

SciAps LIBS can do small parts because of our small aperture and well designed argon purge The SciAps LIBS (laser) unit is especially designed for handling curved surfaces and small parts. The device uses a small exit aperture and a patented ...

Industry Driven: LIBS lifetime basic training

Diggity February 21, 2020 LIBS, NDT/PMI, True Demo Stories

Here’s true customer story from a recent training in the western U.S. One of the added benefits of buying SciAps LIBS analyzers is the lifetime basic operational training for as long as the company owns the LIBS. Carbon testing is ...

What does the SciAps carbon analyzer have in common with a good golf swing?

SciAps True Demo Stories, Episode 7: Getting Into the Swing

SciAps June 12, 2018 LIBS, NDT/PMI, True Demo Stories

A breezy round of golf got us thinking about some demo stories we’ve been hearing from the road. One of the questions we keep getting is “does the handheld LIBS work in the wind?” We get this question all the time, and couldn’t understand why wind is a problem.