Activities and Events
28 October 2020
Benoit Roger, Ph. D. & Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc., Chimis. Tradiksyon é adaptasyon: Corine et Patrik Lormel. Luil ésansiyèl a vétivè (Vetiveria zizanioides, syn. Chrysopogon zizanioides) sé on luil kè nou ka rousouvwè onlo, plis kè sé lézòt la. An plis dè sa sé pi rèd la kè nou ni pou analizé. Déja pou
Activities and Events
23 June 2020
The Standards Council of Canada delivered the ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation to PhytoChemia in May 2020 (website certificate here). You may not know what it is and what it means to you. In this document, we briefly discuss the subject and conclude with the list of accredited services. What is ISO 17025? This is an
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30 April 2020
Hydrosol obtained with Explorer (an Alchemia Solution Still) Corine Lormel, PhD Samples often contain very different molecules. In analytical laboratories, finding the instrument which will identify and quantify them is the first step. For this purpose, the chemist must ensure that the chosen method can “separate” the compounds of interest but also makes them “visible”
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5 February 2020
Corine Lormel , PhD As suggested by the Latin declension of the title, this February we will look at a series of blog posts on the theme of roses. In this first post, we will start with a historical overview of the rose’s botany and a summary of the main methods to produce rose derivative
Discoveries
21 January 2020
In the past few days, we have distilled by Clevenger leaves of Pogostemon Heyneanus (Indian patchouli). To give you a brief summary, here is the experiment in few figures: Leaves mass : 318 g. We have used frozen leaves, and have grinded them with a mortar. Distillation duration : 4 hours. Essential oil obtained :