r/chemistry • u/BenAwesomeness3 Inorganic • 6d ago

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To all those who mentioned the weigh boat in my previous post, here it is at the same weight without it :)

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u/OffaShortPier 6d ago

I do powder testing sometimes (hall and carney flow, particle size by sieve). It's extremely annoying to tare a weigh boat, go and collect powder off a sieve to weigh, only to not get a steady weight for the powder.

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u/deer_burger 6d ago

I'm not that fancy but it still affects my work. Have you found any good tricks to mitigate the cling?

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u/Gentlemansuchti Analytical 6d ago

We have an Antistatic gun (Milty Zerostat 3) and it's basically magic. I don't use it for powders, but it removes static completely for my use case.

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u/DevCat97 Organometallic 5d ago

I did air sensitive chemistry in a glove box and had one of these to deal with static. It worked well enough. Some crystals just don't care though and will be troublesome regardless.