{"id":280,"date":"2022-02-15T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2024-10-16T09:29:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T07:29:56","slug":"laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The BOAT group are fortunate to operate state-of-the-art laboratory facilities at the Geopolis, University of Lausanne. We operate the following lab spaces, analytical equipment and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neptune Multicollector ICP-MS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agilent 8700 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ISO6 Clean Room, with ISO1 extraction hoods (serviced 02-22)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MWS ultraCLAVE microwave chamber for HBF<sub>4<\/sub> sediment digestion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"common-procedures\">Common Procedures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-33fac1b3-2878-4e1b-9017-5d75815285b3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>REE Purification through Column Chemistry (Cr, Pb, Nd, U, Th)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clean acid distillation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sortable silt grainsize analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Authigenic sediment leaching (Nd, Pb, U)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physical sedimentology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Modern chemical oceanography (GEOTRACES)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"clean-lab\">Clean lab<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:34% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/files\/live\/sites\/iste\/files\/shared\/5.Laboratories\/Clean_lab\/Clean%20lab%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Preparation room with a controlled level of particle contamination&nbsp;meeting the standard ISO 6 (class 1000). The lab is equipped with two extraction hoods and three laminar flow hoods for which the particle concentration level meets the standard ISO 4 (class 10). The clean lab is used for partial or complete dissolution of samples for which chemical and isotopic analyses through liquid phase mass spectrometry are planned.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"clean-lab\">Mass Spectrometry Laboratory<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 34%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The ICP-MS laboratory is equipped with a suite of state-of-the-art equipment for the measurement of elemental concentrations and isotopic compositions, inclucing a Thermofisher Neptune+ Multicollector ICP-MS, and an Agilent 8700 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS. Sample introduction is facilitated though both solution and laser ablation modes.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-1536x1021.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-540x359.png 540w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-1080x718.png 1080w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708-1980x1316.png 1980w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/files\/2024\/10\/Screenshot-2022-11-11-001708.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Other laboratories in the Institute for Earth Sciences are listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/iste\/en\/home\/menuinst\/laboratoires.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BOAT group are fortunate to operate state-of-the-art laboratory facilities at the Geopolis, University of Lausanne. We operate the following lab spaces, analytical equipment and procedures. Common Procedures&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002386,"featured_media":286,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-cover.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/280\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/boat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}