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BNEIR is in the process of acquiring yet more state of the art instrumentation that will help users collect the highest quality data. Meet the Iridia 193 nm laser ablation system by Teledyne. Partly, this is an experiment to see how many lasers we can fit into 350 square feet of lab space before we overwhelm the air handling system of Dartmouth’s Steele Building. But also because of our our desire to fill a gap in our laser ablation capabilities: a 193 nm laser couples better with harder biospecimens like teeth and bone, which BNEIR routinely analyzes.

PI Brian P Jackson is working with Dartmouth purchasing and acquisitions to buy an Iridia Laser Ablation unit. The purchase order has been submitted and has broken through the first few strands of administrative red tape. This unit will ultimately be interfaced with one of our mass spectrometer detection systems, such as the Agilent 8900 ICP-MS or the Vitesse ICP-TOF-MS.