As Charles Dudley Warner once said, "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it" (although the quote is often misattributed to Mark Twain). There have been summers in recent memory when southeast Texas, where Rigaku Americas Corporation is located, has not seen a single day over 100°F. We are still in June and we've already had several triple-digit days, and severe heat warnings are the order of most days this month, with "feels like" temperatures routinely above 115 and as high as 125 in some locations. Add to that the highest ever wind speed recorded at Houston airport (92 mph, significantly greater than experienced in recent hurricanes) during an unexpectedly severe, fast-moving thunderstorm and, yes, we might wonder when and how we are going to do something about the weather.
This month, Rigaku announces the release of ZSX Primus III NEXT, a new tube-above WDXRF spectrometer for industrial applications requiring elemental analysis, such as minerals and mining, metals, cement, ceramics and glass manufacturing, petrochemicals, chemicals, environment and many more. See below to learn more about this new instrument.
Also new this month, the CQL Max-ID handheld 1064 nm Raman analyzer offers features and benefits that maximize chemical threat analysis in safety and security applications. It joins the existing CQL Gen-ID—for more general hazardous analysis—with the ability to offer more targeted CQL variations in the future. Rigaku's Raman products are also used to detect illicit compounds disguised in the most ingenious ways, as our news item below reveals.
We have a variety of application notes this month that cover an array of techniques and use cases, and an assortment of news articles discussing the latest discoveries in materials science.
We hope everyone finds a way to stay cool this summer! |