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| warren | "Just mention it because the pill is filled with liquid, and reminded me of your straws. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Amy, have you tried shining a laser through those? I had the odd experience today of finding a fish oil pill, and look what happens when you shine ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "cool! you can also buy humic acids: http://www.planetnatural.com/product-category/growing-indoors/plant-nutrients/fulvic-humic-acid/ " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I love the straws! grabbed a stack myself today. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "I'm doing a test today putting one bottle of 3 identically prepared Onta #1 samples of crude in mineral oil in the freezer, to see if temperature a..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "exciting news re: humic acid skewing the spectra towards the red and heavier oils towards the blue. can we order samples of the same oils they're ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Yup. ^_^ " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "amy is that a plastic straw + curling iron? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "@matthew, I tried that. It drove me crazy, trying to cut the slit's varying distances apart. (Imm, 2mm, 5mm...etc) Also, I found that I kept getti..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | " " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Looks fun..icy poles are awesome. I had this same problem a while back. In the end I settled for resealable plastic baggies & plastic straws. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| btbonval | "These graphs look like there's a log normal pattern to them with spikes that break from the log normal distribution. If you can estimate the param..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "nice! @amysoyka. We're also thinking about cutting a bunch so they could be switched in and out at known widths. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | " " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "slidey in, slidey out " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| amysoyka | "Warren, you might like this... It is a resizeable slit. It works like a zoom/focus on a camera " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Draft event guide posted: http://publiclab.org/notes/stevie/08-13-2014/working-oil-testing-event-guide " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Very true, re: alignment -- is there any way to do a tiny tiny amount like a nanodrop while keeping the (possibly toxic) sample material sealed som..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Well, ideally, much smaller would be great -- i think the ones you've found are mostly 15ml?, but the reality may be that nail polish bottles just ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "if we're locking in alignment for the laser, and settling on mineral oil for a solvent, I don't actually think a container-less cuvette is a crazy ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| natalie | "Do any of the samples I have sent thus far match this criteria? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Maybe -- the paper describes different kinds of filtering, one from when the laser enters the liquid, one from when the fluorescence exits the liqu..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Is this why the "microdrop" style is so popular? could we reduce the filtering effect by totally saturating the sample with laser light? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "I agree! In this event, we were testing out a number of different bottle options, trying to source the best ones. (you can see some of the ones we..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |