Testing pH: Ionic Strength & Buffering Capacity
When customers experience issues with our pH test strips, we often look to the solutions they’re testing as one possible cause. The majority of our pH test strips are designed for use in aqueous (water-based) [...]
The Chemical Museum
At a company that’s been around since 1932, sometimes we like to reminisce about “the good ‘ol days”. We keep a few reminders around of when the company was in its youth, and we decided [...]
Germy Jobs
Dirty Jobs was a great TV show, but we think Discovery should make a spin-off called Germy Jobs! Germs are more up our alley, and there are certainly some germy jobs out there. We’ll set [...]
Restaurant Test Strips and Sanitizers: A Complete Buying Guide
Commercial sanitizers and test strips are a requirement of health departments across the country. Why? Because test strips tell you if the chemical sanitizing solution is the required concentration. Remember our article on Sanitizing vs [...]
Bartender’s Guide to Sanitation
Food safety and sanitation aren’t limited to the kitchen. Bars should also have procedures in place for a sanitary environment. Quite frankly, we want to know the restaurants and bars we attend are clean and [...]
The Hard Truth About Water
We all know that hard water can be a headache. A simple household task, like cleaning the bathroom sink, turns into a long and laborious scrubbing process. Faucets and bathroom fixtures become the home of [...]
Human pH Values
Your body tightly controls pH levels to maintain overall good health. Different components of your body have different pH levels, depending on their bodily functions. Exercise, diet and medications can affect your body’s pH levels. [...]
Lichens and Litmus and pH! Oh My!
Dorothy might have been more fascinated with lions and tigers and bears, but we’ve been making litmus paper since Precision began, and we think it’s just as fascinating. Like the Wizard of Oz, litmus paper [...]
How to Detect Leaks in Sealed Equipment
Equipment designed to be air-tight, such as incubators, pharmaceutical isolators, glove boxes, and the like need to be tested for leaks. An article published in the journal, Clean Air and Environment1, discusses the difference between [...]
Bugs on a Plane
In a world, where flying on a plane is a convenient way to travel, hordes of people are in close quarters, and the potential spread of disease is eminent. One man will embark on a [...]
The Human Eye: Perception of Color
We are often asked if we can make test strips or color charts in smaller, closer increments, and we always want to say “YES!”, but we sometimes have limitations. To understand color chart limitations, we [...]
Are you a Supertaster?
Genetic Taste Tests and What They Tell You Many human traits are determined by a single pair of alleles. An allele is an alternative form of a gene, located at a specific position on a [...]