Hand Dryer vs. Paper Towel: Who Wins the Bacteria Battle?
It seems the way we dry our hands in public restrooms is up for debate these days. You probably think of all the nuisances you have come across when trying to dry your hands in [...]
Sensitivity of the Ammonia Leak Detection Cloth
Occasionally, we get customer inquiries that require us to do a little digging and experimenting. We love these questions! It teaches us more about our products and how they’re used. Here’s an example of a [...]
Leak Detection and Cobalt Chloride
Cobalt chloride, CoCl2, is an inorganic compound that changes color from blue to pink in response to humidity. As humidity increases, cobalt chloride gradually changes color from blue, to pink, to a lighter pink, almost [...]
Meet Our Team: Celeste Parker
Meet Celeste Parker, our Accounting star. Celeste is like a decadent layer cake, made up of outer accounting layers, and a few hidden layers of human resources in the middle. She handles our accounts payable, [...]
Science Experiment: Observe a Decomposition Reaction
This experiment is brought to you from Robert Bruce Thompson’s book, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture. The experiment begins on page 167, and includes another section for going further that [...]
Hand Washing Experiment
Background The transmission of pathogenic microorganisms by hand contact has steadily increased over the past decade. This has occurred despite the abundance of new disinfectants and hand sanitizer dispensers everywhere we look. In addition, new [...]
Temperature and Its Effect on Bacterial Growth
We often get questions about incubation temperature and times for our dipslides, and the answer is dependent on what type of organisms the customer is looking for. Our dipslides contain two different types of media [...]
The Not So Tall Tales of Precision’s History
You can gather a bit of our company history from the About Us page on our website, but what you won’t find there are some of the entertaining stories we hear our CEO, Howard Kimel, [...]
Testing pH Levels in Everyday Foods and Household Products
Here’s a fun rainy day experiment for you and your little ones. All you need are our pH 1-14 test strips, a little bit of time, and a few household products. This is an easy [...]
How Do I Use Your Phosphate Test Strips?
When we get frequent or interesting technical questions, we like to share those questions and answers with everyone. We add frequently asked questions and answers to our Knowledge Base regularly, but every once in a [...]
Can I use Precision test strips to test the pH of bodily fluids (urine, saliva, sweat, blood, etc)?
We get calls pretty regularly with questions regarding the use of our pH test strips and litmus papers to test bodily fluids, such as urine, saliva, sweat, and blood. We get these questions so often, [...]
Investigating Microbes on Bread with Microslides
Today, we’re going to do a little Microslide experiment where we investigate microbes on bread using impression sampling with Microslides. Our objective is to answer the following questions: Why is bread a microbe food? What [...]