Laboratory

Q. I hope that you can help recommend a product that might help a customer of ours that’s having great difficulty getting cleaning lab glassware. It has remnants of sludge from a water treatment facility laboratory. They are manual cleaning, and willing to soak the glassware, but they are not sure Tergazyme will be strong enough. Have you run into this before? Do you know if Tergazyme will work?

Q. How can I clean blood off of quartz cuvettes for laboratory cleaning?

A. I recommend using a lukewarm (100 F or 40 deg C, definitely not exceeding 130 F or 55 deg C) 1% Tergazyme solution (10 g/L or 1.25 oz/gal) to soak your quartz cuvettes.

A: I recommend using a lukewarm (100F or 40C, definitely not exceeding 130F or 55C) 1% Tergazyme® Enzyme-Active Powdered detergent solution (10 g/L or 1.25 oz/gal) to soak your quartz cuvettes.

Q: Our laboratory plans to purchase the Alcojet detergent, do we have to dilute the detergent before placing it in the dish washer or can we just place the powder in the dish washer? A. Alcojet is a lab detergent suitable for dishwasher use. There is typically a cup designed to hold powdered detergent, often with a door that stays closed during the prewash cycle and then pops open during the wash cycle. No cup for dosing? Read More . . .

Q: Is Manual or Dishwasher cleaning better for glassware?
A: Depends on how we define better.

Q. How can I remove milkstone from pipettes? A. Presoak the pipets in a 2% ambient temperature Citranox solution for at least 20 minutes prior to cleaning and rinsing for milkstone removal.