It was reported that one worker’s error led to a massive power outage that swept across Arizona, Southern California and Mexico, left millions of people in the dark and brought major West Coast cities, including our own San Diego, to a standstill. The outage, which started around 4 p.m. PST, spanned a record setting footprint moving west from Yuma, Arizona to San Diego, as far north as San Clemente, Calif., and as far south as the Baja peninsula in Mexico. Officials stated that the two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power plant where shut down automatically, just minutes before [...]

We already have a winner to the mystery instrument contest, John D. Tompkins, PhD! M150 and M160 MARPLE-MILLER IMPACTOR (MMI™) is a five stage impactor with collection cups instead of the conventional collection plates. Originally designed for size distribution analysis of pharmaceutical sprays, the MMI has found a variety of uses including size distribution analysis of oil mist and soot particles from crankcase blowby of diesel engines. Cut-size diameters are 10, 5, 2.5, 1.25, and 0.625 μm. Easily removable collection cups allow direct weighing of collected particles or droplets. Solvent can be added to the collection cups for sample extraction and [...]

The last two days to find great deals on auction lab equipment are September 8 and 9. There are 1000s of highly desired laboratory and process control instruments. There are even some unusual items, like the one pictured here. If you can correctly guess what this item is, we will send you a $200 credit to use in our online store at www.BioSurplus.com.  Just send your guess to info@BioSurplus.com and  make your subject line, last two days.  We will announce the winners on Monday, September 12, 2011. Don’t miss the final two days of the Biogen Idec auction.  Go to [...]