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Traceable Calibration Gases: SRMs, NTRMS, and Protocol Gases
Last Updated Date: 05/13/2013 The Gas Metrology Group in the Chemical Sciences Division is tasked with providing traceability in gas analysis for the U.S. This group works with … more
Lunar spectral irradiance and radiance (LUSI)
Last Updated Date: 04/11/2013 LUnar Spectral Irradiance and radiance (LUSI) is a proposed suite of instruments to radiometrically characterize the Moon for use as an on-orbit … more
Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP)
Last Updated Date: 04/10/2013 Detecting climate change with remote sensing instruments, providing state-of-the-art surveillance imagery for security and defense, or getting the … more
Simultaneous Determination of Mercury and Tin Species in Standard Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 03/21/2013 Methods applicable to the extraction and quantification of mercury and tin species in biological, environmental, and clinical reference materials … more
Standard Reference Materials for Hexavalent Chromium in Contaminated Soil
Last Updated Date: 03/21/2013 Significant environmental remediation efforts are being conducted to address the hazards posed by the long-term terrestrial disposal of hexavalent … more
Certification of Three Soil SRMs for Inorganic Environmental Measurements
Last Updated Date: 03/21/2013 Analysis of soils for metals and other elements is essential in assessing environmental compliance and the impacts of potentially toxic elements … more
Interlaboratory Comparison Exercises for Organic Contaminants and Trace Elements in Marine Sediments and Tissues
Last Updated Date: 03/21/2013 Three separate interlaboratory comparison exercises for environmental contaminants in marine specimens were administered in 2007/2008 by … more
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Environmental Samples
Last Updated Date: 03/18/2013 For the past 40 years NIST has developed SRMs for the determination of inorganic and organic contaminants in environmental matrices such as … more
Interlaboratory Comparison Exercises for Organic Contaminants and Trace Elements in Marine Sediments and Tissues
Last Updated Date: 03/18/2013 Three separate interlaboratory comparison exercises for environmental contaminants in marine specimens were administered in 2007/2008 by the … more
Nanoparticle Measurements and Standards for Biomedical Applications and Health
Last Updated Date: 03/15/2013 Our goal is to develop certified reference materials, standard test methods, measurements, and critical data for the physicochemical … more
Carbon Mitigation
Last Updated Date: 03/15/2013 The goal of this project is to identify and develop standards and measurement methods currently needed by the energy industry to enable the … more
Fiber Sources and Applications
Last Updated Date: 02/21/2013 Optical frequency combs convert a laser source containing a single frequency of light into pulses that include thousands of frequencies. This … more
Assessing NP EHS
Last Updated Date: 02/02/2013 Due to their small size, nanoparticles can enter living organisms in previously unforeseen ways and their immense surface area results in higher … more
Pipeline-Scale Flow Measurement Standards for Natural Gas
Last Updated Date: 01/28/2013 NIST natural gas flow calibrations are performed offsite at the CEESI Iowa flow facility in Garner, Iowa under NIST’s metrological … more
Synchrotron Radiation-Based Calibrations for Space Weather Prediction
Last Updated Date: 11/19/2012 Orbital ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet spectrometers are calibrated on beamline 2, taking advantage of the calculability of synchrotron … more |
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