Analysis for Innovators: Supporting industry

Blog - Through the Analysis for Innovators (A4I) partnership, the Coconut Collaborative had access to innovative and advanced measurement and analytical technologies at both the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to assess the feasibility of developing an approach to detect rancid coconut cream

15 October 2018
Making a mountain out of a Mole Day

Blog - Today is Mole Day, chemists’ #1 holiday! Mole Day occurs every year on October 23 from 6:02am to 6:02pm to commemorate Avogadro’s Number and the basic measuring unit of chemistry, the mole.

23 October 2018
Countdown to the SI redefinition

Blog - The redefinition of the International System of Units enacted on the 16 November 2018 during the General Conference for Weights and Measures will mean that the SI units will no longer be based on any physical objects, but instead derived through fundamental properties of nature.

20 November 2018
Christmas, candles and the countdown to the SI redefinition

Blog - Perhaps unsurprisingly, the candela was originally based on the light of a candle – but a definition based on something so variable was not good enough for measurement scientists. The candela, or ‘the new candle’, replaced candle-based definitions in 1948. In 1979 the modern definition of the candela was adopted:

20 December 2018
LGC releases series of carbon isotope ratio reference materials: LGC171-KT

News - Kit can validate new methods, monitor performance of methods for determination of carbon isotope ratios, and train and evaluate staff

24 April 2018
LGC announces European measurement science funding success for 2017

News - European funding to address challenge of ‘metrology for environment’ and ‘support for metrology impact’

18 January 2018
LGC scientist invited on to IAEA Working Groups for Stable Isotope Reference Products

News - Presented work developing our current and future reference materials certified for absolute carbon isotope ratios

10 February 2018