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The AMC is the part of the Analytical Division (AD) that handles matters of technical importance to the Analytical Science Community.

Joined January 2015
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Looking back - has instrumentation made analysis better or worse? TB025: How good were analysts in the good old days before instrumentation? rsc.org/images/analysts-befo…
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Can we use recovery factors to correct results? And should we? TB021A: The estimation and use of recovery factors rsc.org/images/recovery-fact…
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What does the new SI mean for analytical chemists? TB086: Revision of the International System of Units (Background paper) doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90028D @MethodsRSC
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If you need an economical experimental estimate of the uncertainty associated with sampling ... TB040: The Duplicate Method for the estimation of measurement uncertainty arising from sampling rsc.org/images/duplicate-met…
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More hand-held instrumentation: A short review of hand-held IR and Raman instruments and their uses. TB094: An introduction to hand-held infra-red and Raman Instrumentation doi.org/10.1039/D0AY90025G @MethodsRSC
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The shortest ever guide to proficiency testing. TB018A: What is proficiency testing? A guide for end-users of chemical data rsc.org/images/proficiency-t…
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Combining sampling and analytical variation for small samples can lead to underestimated of expanded uncertainty. This TB explains why, and what to do about it TB114: Improved estimates of expanded measurement uncertainty doi.org/10.1039/D4AY90083A @MethodsRSC
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What is "fitness for purpose" in proficiency testing? TB019A: General and specific fitness functions for proficiency tests and other purposes - clarifying an old idea rsc.org/images/fitness-funct…
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Ever wondered how those simple CHNS analysers work? Here's how. TB029: CHNS Elemental Analysers rsc.org/images/CHNS-elementa…
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Should we discard results below detection limits? TB005: What should be done with results below the detection limit? rsc.org/images/results-below…
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Ever wished there was a 2-page intro to LC-MS? Well ... TB034: High-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) rsc.org/images/chromatograph…
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Ever wondered how molecular biologists count DNA molecules accurately? TB079: dPCR – the digital polymerase chain reaction doi.org/10.1039/C7AY90093G @MethodsRSC
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Outliers in data happen. What do we do about them? TB039: Rogues and Suspects: How to Tackle Outliers rsc.org/images/tackle-outlie…
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NOT about the weather - how metrology started and why it matters for analytical chemists. TB076: Chemical metrology doi.org/10.1039/C6AY90155G @MethodsRSC
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Asymmetric uncertainty intervals can be tricky. Here's a simple way of presenting them. TB088: Why do we need the uncertainty factor? doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90050K @MethodsRSC
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No real data is ever (quite) normally distributed. But is it close enough? And how do we know? TB082: Are my data normal? doi.org/10.1039/C7AY90126G @MethodsRSC
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy provides nearly instant elemental analysis of materials. Here's how it's used for heritage science. TB091: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in cultural heritage doi.org/10.1039/C9AY90147G @MethodsRSC
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This Technical Brief examines two tensile testing case studies and examines the limitations and advantages of mechanical analysis of materials. TB115: Tensile mechanical analysis in cultural heritage doi.org/10.1039/D4AY90097A @MethodsRSC
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What happens to the uncertainty when we add up a collection of values? TB030: The standard deviation of the sum of several variables rsc.org/images/standard-devi…
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