I've been reading a few other chemistry blogs around the web.
The Sceptical Chymist
This blog is from the editors of Nature. They have several different authors and many chemstry topics. Somehow they know about In the pipeline and Tenderblog. Powered by Moveable Type.
TotallySynthetic.com
This blog must be from some grad student trying to keep up on "the literature." I do enjoy the review natural product molecules in current literature I can't read about due to enormous subscription fees.
The Endless Frontier
Ph.D student at Harvard.
Interfacial Science
California post-doc.
post doc ergo propter doc
Canadian post-doc.
Check them out and enjoy.
In the blogosphere_
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Showing posts with label Blogosphere. Show all posts
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Blogroll
I finally found out how to write some code and put some more crap on the sidebar over there. It is now cool to put pictures on your blog, relevent to what you're talking about. And if you want to be really cool, you can put clever little captions on the picture for some comic relief.
But seriously, Dylan's blog about synthetic organic grad school life is great. I can now live my dream vicariously through his daily posts. I've been reading In the pipeline written by Derek Lowe for a while now, it's about life as a wonder drug maker in the pharmaceutical industry.
I also found out how to make your blog come into the top ten on Google. Actually, I read about it on some other dude's blog and I forgot his name. I've noticed people are as serious about getting referenced on the internet as in chemistry journals. To get your blog to the top ten, write about something specific, then email all the top read bloggers in that subject and kindly ask them to link your blog. Once you get enough links and enough people coming by, you are one of the first links for that specific subject on a google search. Or maybe that was the way to get more visitors to your blog?
Anyways, pictures are coming, and if I'm in a good mood, clever captions.
But seriously, Dylan's blog about synthetic organic grad school life is great. I can now live my dream vicariously through his daily posts. I've been reading In the pipeline written by Derek Lowe for a while now, it's about life as a wonder drug maker in the pharmaceutical industry.
I also found out how to make your blog come into the top ten on Google. Actually, I read about it on some other dude's blog and I forgot his name. I've noticed people are as serious about getting referenced on the internet as in chemistry journals. To get your blog to the top ten, write about something specific, then email all the top read bloggers in that subject and kindly ask them to link your blog. Once you get enough links and enough people coming by, you are one of the first links for that specific subject on a google search. Or maybe that was the way to get more visitors to your blog?
Anyways, pictures are coming, and if I'm in a good mood, clever captions.
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Message board
My original idea was to create a message board where mass spec researchers and analysts could discuss trouble shooting. I suggested it to the company which makes the mass spec I work with, but I havn't recieved any reply and didn't really expect it.
So, I'm taking it upon myself. I am currently an environmental chemist using mass spectrometry to analyze water and sediment samples for metals. The mass spec I use uses a quadrupole to filter the ions and it also has a type of collision cell that all the companies are putting out now. The collision cell is supposed to reduce interferents by colliding the interferents with other gas molecules supplied into the collision cell. It also has kinetic energy discrimination which uses some various lens voltages within the collision cell to limit the range of kinetic energies in the ion beam coming out of the collision cell.
I've got everything working pretty well after battling for 6 to 8 months. But I still have some elusive problems which is why I'm creating this blog, or message board.
Anybody analyze Arsenic in salt water with a collision cell? I can't get rid of some interferent at mass 75 which gives me a constant result of 6 - 10ppb in salt water samples that are confirmed having less arsenic by a optical method (ICP emission.) I can discuss a lot more if anybody else knows anything about this.
So, I'm taking it upon myself. I am currently an environmental chemist using mass spectrometry to analyze water and sediment samples for metals. The mass spec I use uses a quadrupole to filter the ions and it also has a type of collision cell that all the companies are putting out now. The collision cell is supposed to reduce interferents by colliding the interferents with other gas molecules supplied into the collision cell. It also has kinetic energy discrimination which uses some various lens voltages within the collision cell to limit the range of kinetic energies in the ion beam coming out of the collision cell.
I've got everything working pretty well after battling for 6 to 8 months. But I still have some elusive problems which is why I'm creating this blog, or message board.
Anybody analyze Arsenic in salt water with a collision cell? I can't get rid of some interferent at mass 75 which gives me a constant result of 6 - 10ppb in salt water samples that are confirmed having less arsenic by a optical method (ICP emission.) I can discuss a lot more if anybody else knows anything about this.
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