• Question: do you use any types of machines in your work?

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      Asked by 428matb38 to Elizabeth on 10 Mar 2015.
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        Elizabeth Cooper answered on 10 Mar 2015:


        We use lots of types of machines for different things.

        we have a particle size machine that tells you the size of a solid particle.

        we have a machine that you put in solution containing liquid elements and they are changed to gas at very high temperatures so that we can calculate how much we have of certian elements in our solutions.

        A lot of the machines in work are really expensive so I have to be careful when im using them 🙂
        we have a machine that seperates two liquids from each other by running at a temperature in which one liquid boils off and the other stays (distillation)

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