Does different dilution factors affect negatively on NH3 reading ?

I have a sample of treated water sample & asked to obtain ammonia conc. in sample using a machine with 5-25 ppm detection range. However, upon testing with different dilution factors, all...

27 February 2021 8,483 3 View

What are the application of Fixed points thoery in Chemistry.?

It is said that fixed point theory has lot of applications not in the field of mathematics only but also in various areas. So I am looking for applications in Chemistry only..

26 February 2021 3,533 1 View

The type of filter paper used to filter an epoxidized oil (the mixture is an epoxidized oil with magnesium sulfate) ?

I have a mixture of epoxidized oil and magnesium sulfate wich type of filtre paper should i use

21 February 2021 3,944 3 View

How to avoid polypyrrole deposit on counter electrode?

Hi all, Currently, I electrodeposited polypyrrole on carbon electrode but I got some problem when polypyrrole also deposited on the surface of the counter electrode. The concentration of pyrrole...

05 February 2021 2,103 3 View

What is the molecular size for crystal violet and reactive orange 16?

I am using methyl violet 10B and reactive orange 16 (RO16) dyes for my Ph.D. research. I'm trying to find the molecular size for both of these dyes. It is possible for me to find these dyes'...

01 February 2021 3,333 4 View

How to find the target displacement to use in displacement control pushover analysis according to ASCE 41-17?

I am performing pushover analysis in Etabs of a steel braced frame but oI do not know what value should I use for target displacement. The height of the building is 20m. I want to know what value...

29 January 2021 2,190 2 View

Can we coat the pellet with graphite spray in place of silver paste for making electrical contact to measure the thermoelectric properties?

I want to coat the pellet because without electrical contact (may be due to the high resistance of the pellet), the V-I plot is not coming in the ZEM-3 instrument. I want to measure electrical...

24 January 2021 836 2 View

What is suitable etching resist coating for polished Titanium Grade 5 surface?

Currently we start a chemical etching project. This project involved etching a polished titanium grade 5 surface part. We facing a problem where by our etch resist coating peel off during etching...

15 January 2021 1,592 3 View

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13 January 2021 2,487 1 View

Variant or strain, what exactly happened to the corona virus ?

The new, more contagious variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 which initially detected in the U.K. and has now been spotted in many of the country. While some have referred to this as a new...

11 January 2021 8,810 5 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Calculating volume of DNA required from DNA concentration?

Hi I am a bit confused. They are asking me to find out the volume of DNA required in ul (a total of 30-100 ng for genomic DNA) from the DNA concentration in the nanodrop reading which was 404.8...

26 February 2021 5,029 2 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Genescan gives 3 peaks instead of one?

Hi all, I am doing a genescan analysis for a deleted exon in the patient sample. The amplified region is 215 bp. In the patient sample because of homozygous deletion, no peak is observed while in...

23 February 2021 5,645 1 View

QPCR reaction efficiency with odd results what does this indicate?

I am working on a CFX 96 machine to determine reaction efficiency of my gene of interest. After performing a serial dilution of my cDNA template, I was able to find great reaction efficiencies for...

23 February 2021 809 3 View