Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA): Discovery 5500 from TA Instruments
Contact: petr.fiurasek [at] mcgill.ca (Petr Fiurasek)听-听尝辞肠补迟颈辞苍: OM47
聽group: QCAM
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Application
Measure changes in weight percent in relation to a temperature or time program in a controlled atmosphere
Features
- Temperature range: ambient to 1200 藲C
- Typical sample weight: 5-10 mg
- Weighing precision: 卤 0.01%
- Sensitivity: 0.1 碌g
- Controlled heating rate: 0.1 to 1500 藲C/min
- Gas analysis furnace (EGA)
- Furnace Air cooling (force air/nitrogen): 1000 to 50 藲C ~ 12 min
- Baseline dynamic drift: <10 碌g (50 to 1000掳C at 20掳C/min)
- Modes: Hi-Res TGA, Auto Stepwise TGA, modulated temperature TGA (MTGA)
- Purge gas system with mass flow controllers - Atmosphere: air, nitrogen
