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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

Open vessel digestion

Mercury Determination

The hazards of mercury contamination make accurate mercury's detection extremely important. In fact, over the past century the amount of mercury released into the biosphere has dramatically increased. Contamination sources include medical and hazardous waste incineration and industrial waste.
Milestone has developed a new instrument that exploits an innovative method which generates accurate and repeatable results in a quickly, simply, and waste-free manner, in substitution of traditional Cold Vapor methods.