oil-testing
oil-testing


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warren "Oh, but are these in a set, or individual? Maybe auto-smooth is not working in the old sets viewer only when viewing spectra individually? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "It's the "auto smooth 10 rows below" button right? here are the two graphs:: Smoothed:: Not Smoothed: " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Oh, interesting. Can you make a set which compares smoothed vs. non-smoothed? In my tests, it reduced noise/spikiness, which helped discourage me f..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "Another question I had was why we "auto smooth" each sample. I saw no difference from when I did this on my sample sets from when it wasn't done (I..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "It only reads the top line of the image; this is documented but not as clearly as it should be. I just added this line to the display to help clari..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "the "20w50 A" was my first scan. Might have taken me a bit to get these consistent, but I'm not really sure why it was so different. I equalized th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Wow, your scans look really awesome and consistent! the 20x50 less so, but still good. Why do you think the 20w50 varied more? Are all of those are..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Craig "Finally had some time to put the kit together... " | Read more » over 8 years ago
MelissaN "(Yay! I am excited. Love the use of papercraft!) " | Read more » over 8 years ago
MelissaN "I received the spectrometer portion of the kit this week. I will post unboxing shots and work on building it next weekend. THANKS! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
Tofu "Got those lovely boxes just now! Will post in french and english this week-end Great! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Saw @mmmelissa post an unboxing tweet too! Sweet! Just received my beta #OilTestingKit from @PublicLab. I know what I am playing with this weekend..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
ygzstc "Wohoooo...Yes we are ready to start!!! Please share your photos of unpacking, folding and assembling...Also please post your questions to get help ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Tmccaffr "Just received the spectrometer. I will begin unpacking and start testing by the weekend. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "So glad to hear it! We're excited too -- a schedule for the test program is forthcoming, too. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
webstertiums "Just got the second box, which looks like the spectrometer. Haven't had a chance to formally unbox yet. Expect to be able to do so in the next coup..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Craig "just checked and i did receive an email, sorry i must of missed it when i was away on holidays, yes that email is correct " | Read more » over 8 years ago
ygzstc "Thanks for your patience Craig. BTW, you mentioned that you learned the fact that you are selected for otk beta testing from this post. We also sen..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Craig "No I don't have the spectrometer yet... no worries I'm sure it will all come together soon and we can kick it off :-) " | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "We haven't yet -- sorry! There was a delay in shipping the spectrometers that the OTK relies on. Do you happen to have one already? If not, no worr..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Craig "Hi I have just received my beta testing kit, and it is the first time I have seen this post announcing that I had been selected in the Beta Group....." | Read more » over 8 years ago
eustatic "Hey! there was some discussion in the chat about this research of the weathering of BP oil on beaches and deep undersea. http://gulfresearchiniti..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
warren "Interestingly, also -- this post now shows up as the top hit for "bimodal lambda-max" on DuckDuckGo.com and in the top six for Google: https://enc..." | Read more » almost 9 years ago
warren "I love this test - the possibility of distinguishing mixed oils, even in a basic sense, is amazing. Have you done a 1:2 mix test for comparison? " | Read more » almost 9 years ago