The AMC is the part of the Analytical Division (AD) that handles matters of technical importance to the Analytical Science Community.
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Looking back - has instrumentation made analysis better or worse?
TB025: How good were analysts in the good old days before instrumentation?
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Can we use recovery factors to correct results? And should we?
TB021A: The estimation and use of recovery factors
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What does the new SI mean for analytical chemists?
TB086: Revision of the International System of Units (Background paper)
doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90028D
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If you need an economical experimental estimate of the uncertainty associated with sampling ...
TB040: The Duplicate Method for the estimation of measurement uncertainty arising from sampling
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More hand-held instrumentation: A short review of hand-held IR and Raman instruments and their uses.
TB094: An introduction to hand-held infra-red and Raman Instrumentation
doi.org/10.1039/D0AY90025G
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The shortest ever guide to proficiency testing.
TB018A: What is proficiency testing? A guide for end-users of chemical data
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Combining sampling and analytical variation for small samples can lead to underestimated of expanded uncertainty. This TB explains why, and what to do about it
TB114: Improved estimates of expanded measurement uncertainty
doi.org/10.1039/D4AY90083A
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What is "fitness for purpose" in proficiency testing?
TB019A: General and specific fitness functions for proficiency tests and other purposes - clarifying an old idea
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Ever wondered how those simple CHNS analysers work? Here's how.
TB029: CHNS Elemental Analysers
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Should we discard results below detection limits?
TB005: What should be done with results below the detection limit?
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Ever wished there was a 2-page intro to LC-MS? Well ...
TB034: High-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS)
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Ever wondered how molecular biologists count DNA molecules accurately?
TB079: dPCR – the digital polymerase chain reaction
doi.org/10.1039/C7AY90093G
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Outliers in data happen. What do we do about them?
TB039: Rogues and Suspects: How to Tackle Outliers
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NOT about the weather - how metrology started and why it matters for analytical chemists.
TB076: Chemical metrology
doi.org/10.1039/C6AY90155G
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Asymmetric uncertainty intervals can be tricky. Here's a simple way of presenting them.
TB088: Why do we need the uncertainty factor?
doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90050K
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No real data is ever (quite) normally distributed. But is it close enough? And how do we know?
TB082: Are my data normal?
doi.org/10.1039/C7AY90126G
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy provides nearly instant elemental analysis of materials. Here's how it's used for heritage science.
TB091: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in cultural heritage
doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90147G
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This Technical Brief examines two tensile testing case studies and examines the limitations and advantages of mechanical analysis of materials.
TB115: Tensile mechanical analysis in cultural heritage
doi.org/10.1039/D4AY90097A
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What happens to the uncertainty when we add up a collection of values?
TB030: The standard deviation of the sum of several variables
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