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Cleaning the IR Plates

  1. Rinse the IR plates thoroughly with dichloromethane, chloroform or reagent grade acetone.
     
    • when manipulating and/or cleaning the plates, hold them by the edge
    • do NOT use water; even moisture from your fingers will render the surface of the IR plates opaque

The correct way to hold IR plates
The correct way to hold IR plates

How NOT to hold IR plates
How NOT to hold IR plates

What could happen if you don't treat the IR plates properly
What could happen if you don't treat the IR plates properly

Wear gloves and clean IR plates over a waste beaker
Wear gloves and clean IR plates
over a waste beaker

DO NOT clean IR plates over the liquid waste container!
DO NOT clean IR plates
over the liquid waste container!
  1. Carefully dry the plates with Kimwipes.
  2. Return the plates to the desiccator after use.

The desiccator used to store IR plates

  1. Put all waste solvent in the liquid waste container.
  2. Clean up any other waste and return all communal equipment to its proper location.

Cleaning the Sealed Cell

  1. Empty the cell contents into a waste beaker.
  2. Return the cell to the "fill position" and add clean solvent.
  3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 twice more.
  4. Wherever possible, blow-dry the cell with dry nitrogen gas.

1. Empty the cell over a waste beaker

2. Add clean solvent
  1. Return the sealed cell to the desiccator after use.

The desiccator used to store IR plates

  1. Put all waste solvent in the liquid waste container.
  2. Clean up any other waste and return all communal equipment to its proper location.

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