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Isobornyl Cyclohexanol and You

30 November 2015

Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc., Chimiste – Popularization Essential oils are worth quite a lot of money. It so happens that, in order to boost profits, unscrupulous people alter oils in various ways. This “Adulterants and you” series is there to introduce you to some of the adulterations we encounter. This is because not all of

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You Said Polar?

23 November 2015

Alexis St-Gelais – Popularization  Polar: I am not reffering to the winter cold that has settled around here in Saguenay a few weeks ago… I am rather speaking of a concept that can be helpful to understand many chemical phenomena, to which I will certainly plently refer to in the future on this blog. Polarity

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Quality Control 101, Part II. How to read a GC report

15 October 2015

Hubert Marceau, chimiste – Popularization As more and more consumers are aware of the existence of essential oil adulteration, distributors are starting to offer GC reports with their oils. We believe that this is a good step for multiple reasons. It shows that the company has made its best efforts to offer to its customers

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GC Analysis – Part VIII. Calibrated Compound Quantification

17 September 2015

Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc., chimiste – Popularization Although it constitutes a large part of our activities at PhytoChemia, essential oils analyses are in fact a special case for chemists. Indeed, it is one of the only cases (along with hydrosols, fatty acids methyl esters and a handful of other applications) where the approximation “concentration ≈ %

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Ethylhexyl palmitate and you

31 August 2015

Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc, Chimiste – Popularization Essential oils are worth quite a lot of money. It so happens that, in order to boost profits, unscrupulous people alter oils in various ways. This “Adulterants and you” series is there to introduce you to some of the adulterations we encounter. This is because not all of

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