Re: Temperature calibration

S. M. Schoberth (s.schoberth@kfa-juelich.de)
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 09:19:24 +0100

At 09:48 07.12.98 -0600, you wrote:
>
> On a related note, has anyone ever used a methanol-filled capillary
>tube as an internal temperature standard? It seems to me that if the
>methanol lines don't interfere with the observed spectrum that it might be
>a neat way to measure the actual temperature of the sample.

Yes, from personal visits I know that Kuchel's group in Sydney
uses both methanol and ethylene glycol capillaries, depending
on the temperature range to be covered, with great success.
See, e.g., Potts and Kuchel. 1992. Biochem. J. 281:753-759.

Siegfried Schoberth
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