Dry ashing procedures can often take from several hours to overnight for completion Typically these analyses are performed using resistance muffle furnaces A review of an alternative dry ashing technique which utilizes microwave instrumentation will be presented Examples of microwave dry ashing procedures where

Representing the highest level of fully automatic thermo gravimetric analysis operating at temperatures of up to 1000º C Built in high performance analytical balance 0 0001 g Massive reduction in the work load through the simultaneous evaluation of the moisture and ash content of up to 29 samples in one cycle without

Mar 22 1976 Samples dry ashed in fused silicacrucibleswere compared to samples subjectedto the hot trichloroaceticacid aceticacid ex traction method which gave Seamless50 miplatinumcrucibleswere also used Furnaces Tissues were dry ashed in mufflefurnaces K H Huppert Co South Holland Ill 60473