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Water testing at Environmental Protection Agency facility

  • 1970s

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General view of an unidentified female employee pouring a water sample into the tray of a Perkin-Elmer Autosampler at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laboratory facility located in Edison, New Jersey. Per notations accompanying the photograph, a suite of Perkin-Elmer instruments, including an atomic absorption spectrophotometer with a heated graphite atomizer (HGA) attachment, were used to test priority water samples to the lowest possible limits for metals contents.

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Perkin-Elmer Corporation. “Water Testing at Environmental Protection Agency Facility,” 1970–1979. Photographs from the Perkin-Elmer-Applera Collection, Box 4. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/k643b212r.

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