Total microwave sample preparation

In 1990, Milestone was the first company to introduce the concept of Total Microwave Sample Preparation. This approach enables analysts to perform every sample preparation step associated with atomic spectroscopy analysis in a single microwave labstation. This significantly reduces overall sample preparation time and eliminates the need for laboratories to invest in multiple conventional instruments, such as vacuum drying ovens, heating blocks, etc. The all-new ETHOS 1 further develops and expands this concept, allowing the user to switch from closed vessel digestion to open vessel digestion, acid evaporation, solvent extraction, or protein hydrolysis in just a few seconds.

Solvent Extraction

The ETHOS 1 becomes a ‘microwave Soxhlet’, to perform a wide range of solvent extraction from various samples. Typical applications include pesticides and PCBs extraction from environmental samples, additives extraction from polymers, fat extraction from food and feed samples, and many others. The extraction is completed in 10-20 minutes, and requires a fraction of the solvent volume needed by conventional techniques