[Barnett8]

I am about to do my grad project (for high school) on the Tadahiko Mizuno high temperature plasma experiment. My Question is: Is there a company that I can send my products to to get them analyzed to see what is in them (my high school doesn't have a spectrometer)?

Thanks!

[Golden_4_Life]

We're not sure why a high school faculty member would sanction a research project without having the required technical instrumentation?  Especially at the highschool level where everything is simple.

[Barnett8]

This isn't a sanctioned experiment. I'm just doing it for fun/as required research for me to graduate. I could have done anything, but I picked this because it is a topic that interests me.

Are there such places that I could send my samples to be analyzed?

[MOTOBALL]

Are you looking for UV/vis, IR, Mass, NMR soectrometry etc.

Google "Contract Research Labs." and you will find many---but don't be surprised that your school chem. dept. will not have the $ $ $ required.

Motoball

[Barnett8]

Thanks Motoball. I was just having a hard time figuring out what the companies were called.

I am looking for mass spectrometry.

[MOTOBALL]

Can somebody tell me where this came from in my earlier reply ? If not, please report to moderator since it will not let me report my own post.

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I had typed in three dollar signs to denote high cost

Motoball

[Borek]

Dollars mark TEX code, forum software attempted to format your post.

[JGK]

I don't know where you are located in the world but for MS and compound identification you will be looking at several hundred dollars per sample especially for multi component identification.

[cpncoop]

You could attempt to email Pfizer or a similar company.... I know that when I was in grad school they were happy to run the occasional sample on a pro-bono basis just for "furthering" science.... Also, if you talk to a local college or university, they may be able to help you.

A contract company will charge you about 100 bucks per sample...

[JGK]

A contract company will charge you about 100 bucks per sample...

If you're lucky! the charge our company was paying ran between $200 - 500 per sample (2008 Prices), depending on what needed doing. charges were lowest if we supplied the MS operating conditions and did our own spectral interpretation.