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22 February 2021
Benoit Roger, Ph. D. & Alexis St-Gelais, M. Sc., Chimis. Translation : Ria Mayriana Vetiver(Vetiveria zizanioides, syn. Chrysopogon zizanioides) adalah salah satu minyak esensial yang paling sering kami terima untuk analisis. Ini juga salah satu minyak yang paling kompleks untuk dianalisis karena mengandung hampir hanya seskuiterpenoid di antaranya banyak senyawa yang tidak diketahui dengan pemisahan
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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
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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
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13 December 2019
Corine Lormel, Ph.D. Some customers are surprised to see a compound named ‘’Unknown’’ in the listing of their essential oils analysis reports. Why do chemists keep them in all reports? Are they just unidentified compounds? Why don’t chemists try to identify them? In this paper, we will try to understand what is behind the famous
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27 November 2019
Corine Lormel, Ph.D. You probably don’t know these terms, but you will soon! Environmental concerns are not limited yet to the public domain! These last years, labs environmental impact, that went unnoticed, has been rising. Just two weeks ago, The Guardian (Bell, 2019) published an article focusing on the “addiction to plastic” in the labs