INSTITUTE'S SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

The Institute has its local computer net with the access to the Internet and E-mail.

We use modern radiophysical equipment (semiconductive a - and g - spectrometers, scintillation b - and g - spectrometers and radiometers) for natural and artificial radionuclides analysis of biotic and abiotic samples. Radiation control equipment (Alpha Guard (Germany), Ramon-1, PPA-03, KCHPA-2010Z and others) is used to determine radon isotopes and short-life products of their decomposition in the air and water, and also for measuring their emanation in rocks, soils, cinders, slag.

We use the method of x-ray fluorimetry (spectrometer VRA- 33) for detecting basic macrocomponents within the range of 0.01-100% in soil and plant samples.

Nuclear absorption method (with the use of spectrometers "Hitachi - 180-60", "Quant-Zeeman-ETA", AAS-1, PA-915) and voltamperometry method (with the use of microprocessor polarograph ABC-1 with electrochemical module EM-04) are used for microelement heavy metal analysis on the billion -1 level.

We make nitrogen, carbon, aminoacids, biologically active substances analysis using highly productive automatic analyzers ANA-1500, AAA-339, AAA-339M and VEZHH- chromatographs.

IR- and UV-spectroscopy (Specord M 80, Specord M 40, SF- 46), highly effective gas chromatography (with the use of chromatographs model 3700, Cvet 550Ì, Chrom-5, LHM-80) and highly effective liquid chromatography (Cvet-3110) are used for detecting certain polluting substances - alcan carbohydrates, polyaromatic compounds, phenol, alcaphenols, nytrophenols, chlorphenols.

Electronic microscopy methods are widely used (electronic scanning microscope BS-300, electronic scanning microscopes BS-613 and BS-500), as well as light microscopy (optic microscopes Nu-2ES (Germany); MBI-6, MBI-15, Biolam-I, Biolam R-13, R 15, R 17, binoculars MBS-10).

Institute's subdivisions work on creating and maintaining natural resources cadastres with the use of modern computer and informational technologies. We use licensed software for organization and creation of geoinformational systems and related databases.



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