Meet Our Team: Dr. Eva Hrbotická
Meet Dr. Eva Hrbotická, our brilliant and insanely talented chemist. Eva has been developing test strips for Precision since 1995. Her research and development lab is located in Brno, in the Czech Republic. Eva is [...]
What’s the Difference Between Thiourea and PTC Taste Test Papers?
“I am testing for bitterness tasting, and I need to know what the difference is between Thiourea and Phenylthiourea (PTC) paper strips. Can you help?” -Artur Great question Artur. We get this question a lot, [...]
The Friends in Fido’s Fur
Around here, we love dogs, and many of us have at least one furry, four-legged friend at home, if not more. We all know our dogs are probably covered in bacteria, just like we are. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Acid Rain Experiments: Measuring the pH of Natural Water
Today's experiment is brought to you by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a great resource for all types of information, including fun and interesting information for young scientists. In this experiment, you’re going to [...]