Pretreatment Lab
The Pretreatment Lab is equipped with all necessary equipment for sample pretreatment of soil, sediment cores, plant material, charcoal, shells, bones, and teeth and includes:

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- Sandblasters
- Freeze driers
- Sieves
- Centrifuges
- Ultrasonic baths
- Heating plates
- Combustion, muffle, and drying ovens
- Buchi extractors and evaporators
- Micromill sampling setup
- Bruker VERTEX 70v FTIR Spectrometer
- Thermo XL3t 950 handheld XRF Analyser
- positive-displacement laminar flow hoods to provide a contamination-free environment