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Extracting Essential Oils in the Lab

4 August 2014

Alexis St-Gelais – Popularization Many of the samples we analyze are sent to us directly as essential oils. However, sometimes a customer wishes to compare plants before their extraction. He may also need a measure of oil yield so that he can plan ahead larger extractions. In these cases, we use two main extraction techniques, each with

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Activities and Events

New: Digital Signatures

15 July 2014

Alexis St-Gelais – News and events Laboratoire PhytoChemia emits most of its reports as electronic documents. A printed and manually signed version of your reports is available upon request. However, your PDFs can now have the same legal value as paper thanks to a digital signature system. As of July 2014, all of the PDF

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GC Analysis – Part I. Separation Principles

30 June 2014

Alexis St-Gelais – Popularization I have explained in a previous post the main theoretical principles of chromatography. Today, I will detail one of its practical applications, widely used by PhytoChemia: gas chromatography (GC). It lends itself to the analysis of volatile molecules – that is to say molecules capable of passing to gas phase at

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Research notes

Analysis of Hydrosol of Quaking Aspen

17 June 2014

Alexis St-Gelais – Research Notes Two batches of young male flowers of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) were submitted to hydrodiffusion. The resulting hydrosol was analysed by gaz chromatography. The main constituents of sample #1 were 1,2-cyclohexanedione, characteristic of poplars, as well as benzyl alcohol and benzoic acid, while sample #2 was dominated by benzyl benzoate.

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Chromatography

30 May 2014

Alexis St-Gelais – Popularization Chromatography refers to a wide range of separation techniques, frequently used in the field of analytical chemistry . The principles of chromatography allow PhytoChemia to achieve several of its analyzes. Chromatography is, for every chemist working in organic chemistry, a valuable tool. It brings together all techniques used for separating mixtures of

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