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RMIT has some balances that are sensitive to 6 decimal places (~0.000001 g). That’s more sensitive than anything else at the Uni. They’re very sensitive to noise. Closing a door, leaning on the bench, tapping a pencil on the bench, etc… all cause blips in the readings.
We found that by placing sorbothane pads under the legs of our TGA’s (thermogravimetric analysers) the noise in our measurements decreased substantially.
TGA’s measure weigh continuously… so it is easier to see how much difference it makes before and after using sorbothane.
The difference seems small but it makes it much easier to interpret data (less jaggies).
It also means that we don’t have to smooth data (a potential source of error).
This means our sensitivity, accuracy and replicability have all improved just by using sorbothane.
We have another Thermo mechanical analyser (TMA) that was even more sensitive than the TGA. Being anywhere near it can cause signal noise. Just by using sorbothane we were able to decrease the noise from the environment and make it much less sensiive. It’s still sensitive… but now you’re less likely to ruin an entire test just by leaning on the bench.
BTW: We’re the polymer department… but for some reason it didn’t occur to anyone to use sorbothane until recently (I had some spare sorbothane pads)..
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