by Sysadmin | Jul 3, 2018 | News
SPECIAL OFFER ON CHEMICALS – VALID UNTIL 31ST AUGUST 2018 Total Lab Supplies are running a special offer on a select range of chemicals. These include commonly used HPLC chemicals as well as some acids. We can offer a wide range of chemicals from general...
by Sysadmin | Apr 18, 2018 | News
Do you need a catalogue? Total lab Supplies have a quantity of general chemical and consumable catalogues left. Simply contact us to request one. We can supply a full range of chemicals from various leading brands such as Honeywell including Hydranal and Fluka as...
by Sysadmin | Jan 26, 2018 | Chemistry, Useful Information
Laundry pods have featured in the news this week after cases of people eating them in what’s being referred to as the ‘Tide Pod Challenge’. In case you didn’t already realise that this is a pretty terrible idea, this graphic looks at the...
by Sysadmin | Aug 22, 2017 | Chemistry, Useful Information
In 1865, the first U.S. patent for a liquid soap was issued to William Sheppard of New York City (No. 49,561). The patent described his “discovery that by the addition of comparatively small quantities of common soap to a large quantity of spirits of ammonia or...
by Sysadmin | Aug 1, 2017 | Chemistry, Useful Information
In 1774, Joseph Priestley, British Presbyterian minister and chemist, identified a gas which he called “dephlogisticated air” – later known as oxygen. Priestley found that mercury heated in air became coated with “red rust of mercury,”...