Directions to "Standort West".
Equipment
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Pressure plate extractors for the determination of correlations between moisture content and soil-moisture tension (pF value) |
Flame atomic absorption spectrometer (F-AAS) to determine heavy metal contents in soil extracts |
- Sieving machines to analyse finely granulated sediments
- Köhn pipette devices
- Pressure plate extractors and sandbox for the determination of correlations between moisture content and soil-moisture tension (pF value)
- ICW permeameter to identify the coefficient of hydraulic conductivity to determine the saturated water permeability of soils
Applications for chemical analysis:
- Atomic absorption spectrometer, containing:
- Graphite tube atomizer
- Flow-injection system
- Amalgam unit
- Autosampler
- Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulphur-Analyzer
- Block disgestion unit and steam distillation to measure N-contents (Kjeldahl)
- Vis- and UV/Vis spectrophotometer
- Calcimeter (Scheibler unit) to determine soil carbonates
- Microwave digestion system
- Aqua regia digestion system for simultaneous digestion of 20 samples
Applications for miscellaneous analysis:
- Thin section preparation system, containing:
- Vacuum resin infusion system
- Circular diamond saw
- Lapping machine
- Thickness gauge for thin section samples
General laboratory equipment:
- Drying cabinets
- Analytical and semi-micro balances
- Titrators
- Muffle furnace
- Binocular microscope
- Ball mill with agate and tungsten oxide grinding beaker
Field work equipment:
- pH meter, partly allowing data logging
- Conductivity meter
- Oximeter
- Reflectometer
- Cuvette photometer
- Balances
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Lapping machine to prepare thin sections |
Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulphur-Analyzer to determine contents in soil and plant samples |
