What about freezing during shipment ?

dgrigor02 · Oct 15, 2014

Just curious, living in MN will there be any variance or issues when sample gets frozen ? Winter is coming and dropping in a mailbox I'm sure it's going to freeze. Will that have any effect ? I suppose Europe has the same problem and if that were an issue it probably would have come up by now.

Triton US · Oct 15, 2014

dgrigor02 said:
Just curious, living in MN will there be any variance or issues when sample gets frozen ? Winter is coming and dropping in a mailbox I'm sure it's going to freeze. Will that have any effect ? I suppose Europe has the same problem and if that were an issue it probably would have come up by now.

This is actually not a problem, as the sample is essentially "atomized" during the analysis. Freezing will not affect the capability of the ICP-OES detection system.

Thanks!

Scott