technical and extension bulletins

technical bulletins are published in order to share information about practices and theory related to the services lucas provides. they provide specialized technical information, and we hope you find the information helpful.

biomass

thermogravimetric analyzer for biomass testing (pdf) 

soils 

• don't treat your soil like dirt: why you should test your garden soil (pdf)
• what's in a soil test (pdf)
• how to collect soil for a soil test (video)
• calculating the right amount of fertilizer (pdf)

environmental

mercury: an environmental toxin (pdf)

materials science

• canadian diamonds (pdf)
• inductively coupled plasma & mass spectrometry: icp-ms (pdf) 
• rare earth elements (pdf)
• scanning electron microscope (pdf)
• ultra high performance liquid chromatograph & mass spectrometer (pdf)
  
• x-ray powder diffraction (pdf)
• x-ray diffraction: microdiffraction for capillaries (pdf)