Environmental analysis with Merck
For the organic or inorganic analysis of contaminants or pollution in water, soil or air, Merck offers everything you need from sample collection to quality control in your environmental testing laboratories.
In addition to a wide product offering, Merck also has a database of application notes for your specific analysis. Discover a selection of the application notes here. Need help with a specific application? Get in touch with your local VWR® representative.
Application notes
Clean water is an essential part of daily life, from catchment through wastewater treatment. Analysis throughout the whole treatment cycle is crucial.
Maximize the compliance and confidence of your soil testing results with consistent, reliable and accurate solutions.
Find the right air monitoring method and materials for detecting and quantifying diverse contaminants and particulates for many industrial applications.
Environmental workflow
Preparing water, soil or air samples
Having different sample types can make it challenging to prepare for environmental analysis. For example, soil samples may require substantial preparation before soil analysis can be performed.
Merck’s extensive range of chemicals for synthesis in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and chemical industries.
A comprehensive selection of solvents for gas chromatography.
Sodium chloride, EMSURE® ACS, ISO, Reag. Ph. Eur. for analysis.
Sodium dihydrogen phosphate for trace analysis.
Ultrapure 60% nitric acid and more for trace analysis.
Pure and ultrapure water systems provide Type 1, Type 2 or Type 3 purified water.
Learn how to improve sensitivity, increase throughput and ensure reliability.
Get started with solid-phase microextraction.
Environmental analysis
The three most common analytical techniques performed in environmental workflows are chromatography, titration and spectrophotometry.
With the addition of the Supelco® range of HPLC and UHPLC columns to our product list, we now offer the most complete range of stationary phases.
Solvents are accurately tested for LC-MS suitability and meet all the requirements for modern LC-MS ionization methods.
Our GC columns are an excellent choice for the analysis of neutral and polarizable analytes.
Certified reference material (CRM) is produced and certified in accordance with ISO 17034 and ISO/IEC 17025.
A wide selection of IC reagents for your lab.
Titripur® for volumetric titration, Aquastar® for Karl Fischer titration, Titriplex® for complex metric titration and more.
AQA Prime provides complete verification and documentation for all stages of quality control.
All test kits, test strips and photometric systems are designed for optimal precision, speed and ease of use.
Test kits, instruments and accessories for water, food and environmental analytics.
Reference materials for result interpretation
Supelco®'s reference materials include more than 20000 standards, many of which are used for environmental analysis. These standards are minimally double-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025, ISO Guide 34 and ISO 17034.
A wide offering of solutions that meet ICP/AAS standards.
Ensure your lab is using the most up-to-date organic pollutant standards.
Certified reference materials for HPLC and GC applications.
Boscalid may be used as a reference standard to determine its presence in fruit and vegetable samples.
Organic standard: S-metolachlor metabolite CGA 37735
Organic standard: ethylene oxide solution (1-ml ampule)
Organic standard: puerarin
Merck Supelco® standards and reference materials.
Pesticide reference materials for food and environmental analysis.
Quality assurance support
Merck can help you to ensure the quality of your testing process with the recently introduced M-clarity program: a new classification of products and quality grades to ensure that you always get the correct quality grade for your application.
Quality by Merck
Merck offers a complete range of high-quality products to meet rigorous analytical requirements.
Do you have questions about environmental analysis with Merck?
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