Cleaning HPLC Systems and HPLC Glassware
Question: What are the best practices for cleaning HPLC systems and glassware to ensure optimalperformance and prevent contamination? Answer: Maintaining a clean HPLC system and glassware is essential for accurate and reproducibleresults. Contaminants can lead to column degradation, increased backpressure,…
Differences between Alconox and Liquinox
Q. Currently using Alconox, but are considering a switch to liquinox. We have seen less residuals with Liquinox, which is desireable. What are the recommendations and concerns with switching from Alconox to Liquinox? What are the difference in ingredients between the two?
A. Alconox and Liquinox are functionally equivalent cleaners, but are not chemically identical. Click to learn more and access the Liquinox and Alconox msds.
Gold Leaf Gilding: Removing Residues with Liquinox Critical Cleaning Detergent
Q: What can I use to remove all residues from glass prior to gold leaf gilding? A: When creating beautiful reverse gilded glass art pieces, starting with a perfectly clean glass surface is essential for successful adhesion of the gold…
Removing Fish Oil Residues
Q. We would like to have neutral foaming cleaning agent to clean fish oil and gelatin residue. We will also need a validatable method to test residue.
A. If neutral, foaming is required, we recommend you evaluate Liquinox detergent. Liquinox is a neutral pH range, high foaming concentrated cleaner. The oxidation mechanisms in the Alcojet and Detojet detergents would be the preferred choice for removing these oily, odor persistent residues.
How to Clean Labware: Removing Algae
Q. We are a large energy company working with algae. It is proving tough to remove from glass and labware. We are using Liquinox detergent currently, which is good. Anything better? Eventually we would like to move to cleaning these in our washer.
A. Algae, and the viscous oils that you are working with, require not just powerful emulsifiers….