a colorimetric method for detection and assay of mustard gas in urine after addition of thymolphthalein is reported. the detection limit was 80 ng/ml of llrine. mustard gas could also be detected in urine after extraction with gas chromatography using fid detector. the detection limit was 10 ng/ml. in addition, thiodiglycol, a metabolite of mustard gas, could be converted to mustard with concen...

BACKGROUND Methamphetamine has an adverse effect on the ability to drive safely. Police need to quickly screen potentially impaired drivers therefore a rapid disposable test for methamphetamine is highly desirable. This is the first proof-of-concept report of a disposable electrochemical test for methamphetamine in undiluted saliva. RESULTS A screen printed carbon electrode is used for the N,...

A colorimetric method for detection and assay of mustard gas in urine after addition of thymolphthalein is reported. The detection limit was 80 ng/ml of llrine. Mustard gas could also be detected in urine after extraction with gas chromatography using FID detector. The detection limit was 10 ng/ml. In addition, thiodiglycol, a metabolite of mustard gas, could be converted to mustard with ...

Throughout the Baltic Sea redoxcline, virus production and the frequency of lytically-infected prokaryotic cells were estimated from parallel incubations of undiluted seawater and seawater that contained prokaryotes with substantially reduced numbers of viruses (virus dilution approach), effectively preventing viral reinfection during the incubation period. Undiluted seawater incubations result...

The shot-noise detection limit in current high-precision magnetometry [Nature (London) 422, 596 (2003)] is a manifestation of quantum fluctuations that scale as 1/sqrt[N] in an ensemble of N atoms. Here, we develop a procedure that combines continuous measurement and quantum Kalman filtering [Rep. Math. Phys. 43, 405 (1999)]] to surpass this conventional limit by exploiting conditional spin squ...

Compositional data, as they typically appear in geochemistry in terms of concentrations of chemical elements in soil samples, need to be expressed in log-ratio coordinates before applying the traditional statistical tools if the relative structure of the data is of primary interest. There are different possibilities for this purpose, like centered log-ratio coefficients, or isometric log-ratio ...

We have designed a chemodosimeter DPNO (weak fluorescence) which can be oxidized to HPNO (strong blue fluorescence) by OCl(-) with high selectivity and sensitivity in a ratiometric approach with a noticeably lower detection limit. The sensor could be useful for the detection of hypochlorites in tap water.

An aqueous ratiometric ESIPT sensor with a 87 nM (15.4 ppb) detection limit was successfully synthesized and applied for detection of all oxidation states of palladium species.

Optical detection of individual proteins requires fluorescent labeling. Cavity and plasmonic methodologies enhance single molecule signatures in the absence of any labels but have struggled to demonstrate routine and quantitative single protein detection. Here, we used interferometric scattering microscopy not only to detect but also to image and nanometrically track the motion of single myosin...