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Chrkeller said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

What's your expertise there? Quantitative or qualitative analysis?

I have experience with both, but more quant than qual.  Single quads for qual, triple quads for quant and I've done structural elucidation with ion traps and ToF.  Early in my career I was heavily into mass spectrometry.  More recently (last few years) I have moved further from the lab and lead stability and pharmacokinetic studies.    

Reminds me a bit about my first work, at the national Lab in Luxembourg making analyses of ground and water samples. The main difference is that my analyses were mostly anorganic while yours sound like you're moving more into organic and biochemistry.

I can still remember my biggest challenge in preparation there: Analyses of clay farming ground samples that got seriously wet in transit and then dried up. As in a big, solid lump of clay. How do you break that up for the analysis without compromising the sample with iron from a hammer or similar tool? Solution:

Spoiler!

I just microwaved it at low power until it got brittle. Took forever per sample, but it worked...

But enough of the off-topic now. Just happy to meet another chemist, that's all.