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Microwave Digestion

Reliable and professional sample preparation is as important as the analysis itself.
In conventional digestion procedures, the highest temperature of the acid is the boiling point of the acid itself. The time required to digest a sample is mostly a function of the temperature of acid used for reaction. In closed vessel digestion procedures the sample and the acid are added in a microwave transparent vessel. The vessel is closed and safely contained. When microwave energy is applied the pressure in the vessel increases, with a corresponding increase of the boiling point of the acid, thus dramatically reducing digestion times.
Milestone makes microwave digestion faster, easier, safer, and ever affordable than before. Milestone revolutionary microwave instrumentations offers solutions able to:

  • Decrease digestion times from hours to minutes 

  • Avoid loss of volatile elements

  • Avoid acid fumes in laboratory’s environment

  • Avoid sample contamination

  • Low blanks since minimal quantities of acids are used

  • Avoid sample contamination

  • Run 100% unattended operations thanks to the terminal-controlled digestion program

 

Closed vessel digestion

ETHOS 1

Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation

Ethos 1

The ETHOS 1 is built to offer the highest performance and best safety features in the industry; it offers fast vessel heating together with homogeneous microwave distribution throughout the cavity.
The ETHOS 1 can process any kind of samples, with full digestion quality control thanks to reaction sensors and a friendly and intuitive user interface that runs the new EasyCONTROL software.

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START D

Microwave Digestion System

Start D

START D, the new Milestone microwave system, combines sophisticated design and high technology with ease of use and safe operation. With the Milestone START D, microwave digestion becomes more affordable than ever before.
With its wide selection of rotors, the Start D can process any kind of samples, from the relatively easy environmental, such as wastewater or sludge, to the most challenging, such as ceramics or refractories materials.

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UltraCLAVE

The Next Generation Microwave Digestion System

UltraCLAVE

The UltraCLAVE offers a completely different approach to microwave sample preparation.
Thanks to its unique design, the UltraCLAVE enables the simultaneous processing of up to 77 samples or the complete digestion of extremely large sample size. Automatic operations require minimal labor and reduce running costs.

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Open vessel digestion

ETHOS 1

Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation

Ethos 1

The ETHOS 1 is built to offer the highest performance and best safety features in the industry; it offers fast vessel heating together with homogeneous microwave distribution throughout the cavity.
The ETHOS 1 can process any kind of samples, with full digestion quality control thanks to reaction sensors and a friendly and intuitive user interface that runs the new EasyCONTROL software.

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Clean Chemistry

During trace and ultra-trace elemental analysis a number of external factors (such as reagent purity, cross contamination, etc.) that can critically impact the quality of the results.
The inability to control the analytical blank (its chemical composition, its measurement, its effective control) is often the primary source of error and the limiting factor for trace analysis.

Milestone has developed an innovative and complete line of systems and accessories for control and reduction of the analytical blank in ICP-MS, ICP-AES and GFAA.
These instruments are dedicated to acid purification, ultratrace cleaning of vessels and reduction of contamination from vessel surface.

DuoPUR and SubPUR

DuoPUR

The DuoPUR is sub-boiling distillation system which enables laboratories to produce ultra-pure acids from reagent-grade stock to keep the overall blank at the lowest level.
The DuoPUR is the most economic, efficient and safe purification system: up to 90% of the costs are saved and high productivity is granted (up to 3 liters in 8 hours).

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TraceCLEAN

Automatic acid reflux system

TraceCLEAN

Milestone’s new TraceCLEAN is an automated, closed, acid reflux system that thoroughly and safely cleans digestion vessels, inserts and AA, ICP, ICP-MS accessories.
The main benefit of this system is that any trace metal contaminants that are present in the cleaning acid stay within the reservoir and do not come in contact with the cleaned trace accessories.

 

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Microwave Extraction

The use of laboratory microwave ovens for organic extraction elevates sample preparation to the same level of sophistication as sample analysis.
It is now possible to speed up extraction, reduce costs, boost effectiveness, consistency and simplicity of reactions.

ETHOS 1

Advanced Microwave Extraction Labstation

Ethos 1

The ETHOS 1 is built to offer the highest performance and best safety features in the industry; it offers fast vessel heating together with homogeneous microwave distribution throughout the cavity.
The ETHOS 1 can process any kind of samples, with full extraction quality control thanks to reaction sensors and a friendly and intuitive user interface that runs the new EasyCONTROL software.

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START E

Microwave Extraction System

START E

Milestone's START E extraction labstation is a high-performance microwave-accelerated system with advanced process control and safety features.
The START E system was created to give analysts a technologically advanced extraction platform.
Speed, economy, effectiveness and simplicity are part of this unique instrument.

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Microwave Synthesis

Microwave enhanced chemistry represents a fundamental step forward in the capabilities of synthetic chemists. Since its introduction, it has allowed to run reactions faster than ever before, with higher yields and reliably from milligrams to much larger quantities, without the need of reaction re-optimization.
Milestone provides appropriate solutions also for many undergraduate laboratories, providing students with an in-depth view on the new advancements of the modern synthesis.

 

Solutions for academia

StartSYNTH

StartSYNTH

Microwave Synthesis Labstation

The Milestone’s StartSYNTH platform offers a unique application flexibility: thanks to its highly homogeneous field, chemists are able to reliably perform all kind of syntheses.
The StartSYNTH finds its specific working environment in academic laboratories for undergraduate teaching, as well as for research.

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RotoSYNTH

Rotative Solid-Phase Microwave Reactor

RotoSYNTH

The Milestone innovative RotoSYNTH combines all the "traditional" advantages of microwave-enhanced synthesis, with the unique capability of physically rotating the reaction vessel, to achieve very homogenous bulk heating of heterogeneous reaction mixtures.
The RotoSYNTH system represents an excellent platform for method optimization and for scale-up.

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