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Going down the tubes

Infrared analysers are flavour of the month in the food and pharmaceuticals industries, and a recent patent seeks to replace the familiar test tube. All this and alcohol too. Compiled in the C i t Nature office from information provided by the manufacturers.

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Going down the tubes. Nature 400, 91–92 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21931

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