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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed two new calibration tools to help correct and validate the performance
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a sensitive new method for rapidly assessing the quality of carbon
Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new set of reference materials that could contribute to significant
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated that they can cheaply