Marketocracy gurus were also buying shares of chromatography equipment maker Dionex (nasdaq: DNEX - news - people ).

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Chromatography is a process used by scientists to separate complex chemical mixtures at the "nano, " or molecular, level by virtue of differences in absorbency.

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Only chemical chromatography that measures several samples for their average level of capsaicin, the chemical that gives peppers their bite, can establish a record claim.

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In a patient with a known hemoglobin disorder, the doctor may want to specifically request that the HgA1C assay be done by boronate affinity chromatography.

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Those made by his firm use advanced laser-fluorescence technology: more accurate, simpler, cheaper and more robust, he says, than the gas-chromatography apparatus in common use so far.

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To manufacture the tests, a scientist feeds a sheet of chromatography paper into a generic Xerox office printer, which prints a layer of colored wax onto the paper.

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Skeptical, Mr. Bosland got some seeds and was astonished to find that the peppers he grew averaged more than one million Scovilles, as measured by high performance liquid chromatography.

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They do not have special lessons as such but meet once a month after school - rising to once a week in their third year - to learn study skills and take on extra work they would not be able to do in a whole-ability class, a recent example being chromatography in chemistry.

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