Lab-Hacks

Sample storage

Cardboard boxes?

Small stackable plastic boxes!

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Labelling tubes/beakers

Handwriting?

Sticky labels!



Link to LaTeX template

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Isolating quartz

Heavy liquids?

Froth flotation!



Link to how-to video
(check description for procedures)

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Dissolving quartz

Hot-plate?

Shaker table!

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Chromatography columns

Lab stands?

Make holes in a piece of plastic!

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Make new for every batch?

Keep them in water and re-use!

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Aluminium (²⁷Al) in aliquots by ICP-OES

Only [Al]?

Measure [Al] & [Be] simultaneously!

ICP-OES data reduction in Matlab

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Dissolving samples for ³⁶Cl

Fizzy reaction?

Use chromatography columns as droppers!

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Loosing your Cl carrier?

Double spike!



Link to Cl spike simulator

Actually, after some discussions with John Stone and others in 2021, the evaporation of Cl during dissolution of carbonates seems to be negligible and cannot be detected on the measured ³⁵Cl-³⁶Cl-³⁷Cl ratios of duplicates spiked before and after dissolution.

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