A laboratory (often abbreviated as lab) is a place where scientific research, measurement and experiments are conducted under controlled conditions. A typical lab can hold space for one to thirty, or more, researchers depending on the size of the room and state mandated maximum occupancy limit.
All laboratories share some common features, mainly laboratory equipment and laboratory glassware: Usually, they have at least one fume hood. Toxic and hazardous chemicals can be safely handled in a fume hood. This reduces, and usually eliminates, the risk of inhalation of toxic gases produced by the reaction of chemicals. Laboratories usually have a sink for handwashing. A fire extinguisher is located in a laboratory, as well as a fire blanket, to help exterminate fire in the event of an accident. There is also an eye wash station and an overhead shower in the event that chemicals gain access onto clothes, skin, or eyes. The exceptions to this would include certain engineering and physics laboratories, which usually do not include glassware, hoods, and toxic chemicals.
Supporting the laboratory is usually a stock room, or preparation room, where dry and wet chemicals are stored. This stockroom prepares all the reagents (acids, bases, buffers) of various quantities and concentrations, as well as orders and distributes supplies (glassware, chemicals, personal protective equipment) to the laboratory. In an engineering or physics laboratory, the stock room or preparation rooms are generally used for storing of equipment and repair facilities.
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Beta Analytic - Commercial radiocarbon dating laboratory in Miami, Florida, US. Detailed description of methods and services.
Bristol Archaeological Science Research Group - Outline of scientific research projects related to archaeology at Bristol University, some in collaboration between departments.
Geochron Laboratories / Krueger Enterprises Isotopic Analyses - Providing radiocarbon, potassium-argon, stable isotopes, and other radiometric analyses. Serving researchers in geology, geochronology, archaeology, anthropology, hydrology, and environmental and food adulteration studies. Additional analyses include C-14 by AMS, tritium, Sr, Rb-Sr, Pb, U-Pb, and Sm-Nd.
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Leibniz-Labor - This laboratory at the University of Kiel provides radiometric dating and studies the use of stable and radioactive isotopes for archaeometry, palaeoclimate research and as tracers in environmental studies.
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Nottingham University Tree Ring Dating Laboratory - The Laboratory has dated over 600 buildings in England and Wales. Outline of its activities.
OCR Carbon Dating, Inc. - Oxidizable carbon ratio dating for carbon-based items from 1 year to 35,000 years old. This laboratory in Vermont supplies a mass of information on the process and procedures.
Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory - An independent tree-ring dating laboratory concentrating primarily on the dating and analysis of standing timber structures. Projects, publications, the dated buildings register.
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Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology - Provides radiocarbon and luminescence dating, archaeometallurgy, palaeodietary and ancient DNA analysis. Staff, methods.
Radiation Monitoring Lab of IHME - Lab in Ukraine offers radiocarbon dating services. Site includes description of conventional method and Liquid scintillation counting techniques used.
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Analyses using of wood, charcoal, peat, humus, soil, bone, shell, fabric.Prices and cost. Commercial lab. C-14. Pottery & ceramics. ]
Radiocarbon Dating at Queen's University, Belfast - The Radiocarbon Dating Service at the School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology. Sample sizes, staff, cost and time.
Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory - At the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand, provides radiocarbon dating services to international scientific, academic, and art/antiquities clients.
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SURRC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory - Part of the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre at Glasgow.
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The Laboratory for Comparative Microarchaeology and Metal Conservation - Accommodates the facilities for a wide choice of microarchaeological analyzes. It can support studies in the fields of ceramic petrography, micromorphology of sediments, use-wear analysis of artifacts, microbotany, palynology, micropaleontology, obsidian hydration dating, and metallography.
Tree-Ring Services - Independent tree-ring dating laboratory providing analysis of ancient trees, timber-frame buildings to archaeological timbers. Individual reports, current projects and rates detailed.
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