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News|Webcasts|March 24, 2025
Precious Metals: Pre-Analytical Workflow Optimization
Author(s)Milestone
Webinar Date/Time: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 11:00 AM EDT
Discover how to revolutionize impurity analysis in precious metals with microwave digestion—boosting speed, accuracy, and efficiency while eliminating the pitfalls of traditional methods.
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Event Overview:
Accurate impurity analysis in metal alloys, particularly in precious metals, is essential for ensuring quality, performance, and value. Traditional methods, such as fire assay, are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to contamination, which can impact efficiency and data reliability.
This webinar examines how microwave digestion provides a faster, safer, and more reproducible alternative. We’ll discuss the limitations of conventional techniques and explore how Single Reaction Chamber digestion can reduce operator time, improve accuracy, and streamline laboratory workflows.
Dirats Laboratories, a long-standing materials testing facility, will share their experience transitioning from rotor-based microwave digestion to SRC microwave technology. With over 20 years of expertise in elemental analysis, their shift to a more efficient system has helped minimize fusion steps, enhance process efficiency, and achieve notable time and cost savings.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how microwave digestion technology can reduce operator time, increase throughput, and improve analytical accuracy, even for challenging alloy samples.
- Learn how a closed digestion system minimizes blank values and contamination risks for more reliable impurity analysis.
- Explore how controlled digestion conditions enhance laboratory safety by reducing exposure to hazardous reagents and fumes.
- Gain insights into workflow optimization with a more efficient and reproducible digestion approach
Who Should Attend:
- Anyone performing or overseeing elemental analysis
- Lab directors
- Lab managers/supervisors
- Researchers
- Chemists/analysts
- Technicians/research assistants
- QA/QC managers
Speaker:
Gianpaolo Rota
Product Manager
Milestone
Gianpaolo Rota is a product manager at Milestone. He develops new methods and applications, helping customers use our technology. Currently, he focuses on lab tests, application research, and customer application support for performing microwave digestion and mercury determination. He independently performs research and develops new or modified methods and techniques when standard ones are inadequate.
Rota joined Milestone 20 years ago, focusing on validation procedures. He has also focused on digestion, clean chemistry, and ashing lines. He has installed several Milestone instruments in Italy and all over the world, supplying his support for training and chemical applications. Rota participated in more than 500 seminars held all around the world on sample preparation methods and analytical techniques for each Milestone Product Line.
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