NO SCIENCE WITHOUT PURE WATER
Water affects all facets of life. Nothing flourishes and nothing grows without it. Water is especially important for scientists, as an essential element in all chemical, pharmaceutical and food and beverage testing around the world. Water with even the slightest impurities can have detrimental effects on lab test results. For example, testing to ensure we have essentials such as safe food and drink, fresh air, effective medicine and even nontoxic personal care products require ultrapure water. Any contamination in the water—like sodium, iron, pesticides, hormones or other water pollutants —can lead to misleading or even incorrect conclusions, and thus the need redo experiments. Providing ultrapure water ultimately accelerates access to health and well being.
Without pure water, very few experiments, tests or reactions would be possible. Thanks to its favorable chemical and physical properties, water is often considered the ‘universal solvent’ as it dissolves more substances than any other liquid. Perhaps even more importantly, many biochemical reactions will only take place within aqueous solutions.
One potential limitation of water is that it is a weak eluent and a poor solvent of most organic compounds, due to it being highly polar at ambient temperatures. However, superheated water at 200°C has similar properties to typical organic solvents such as methanol, so it can be used to dissolve many organic compounds. This adds even more credibility to water’s status as the universal solvent and means you can use it in a wider range of applications, such as separation and extraction science. Even better, water is cheaper, less flammable and more environmentally friendly than most organic solvents – more great reasons why water is an essential reagent in the lab!
Our Lab Water purification system portfolio offers a broad range of pure and ultrapure water purification systems and services designed for scientists working in pharmaceutical, clinical, academic, industrial, research, and government laboratories — in both validated and non-validated environments.
The Milli-Q® IQ 7003/7005/7010/7015 fully-integrated water purification system is your ultimate lab water solution, providing superior quality Type 1 and Type 2 water directly from tap water. With Elix® EDI technology, intuitive touchscreens, Q-POD® and E-POD® dispensers, the Greener Alternative Product label and mercury-free UV lamps, the system will exceed your most demanding expectations – from improved productivity to reduced environmental impact.
Scientists worldwide have recognized the Milli-Q® IQ 7003/05/10/15 system as having made an impact on laboratory sustainability. This innovative system was voted as SelectScience®’s Sustainable Product of the Year in the 2022 Scientists’ Choice Awards sustainable product design category.
Some of the most interesting science being carried out at the moment pushes the boundaries of analytical sensitivity. Techniques such as inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) and ICP atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) allow researchers to explore biological and chemical systems in more detail and at greater resolution than ever before, including being able to detect the presence of chemicals and factors at trace (<100 ppm) and ultra-trace (<1 ppm) concentrations.
As an example, such sensitivity allows us to detect low expression biomarkers so that we can better diagnose and treat patients, helping to turn the promise of personalized medicine into a reality. High sensitivity analysis is also highly useful when working with environmental samples, so that researchers can better track global climate and environmental change.
The Milli-Q® IQ 7003/05/10/15 system helps researchers eliminate toxic substances, save energy and reduce waste including a more compact design compared to our previous generation of systems. It is the first and only mercury-free tap-to-ultrapure water system with built-in ech2o® UV lamps for the photooxidation of organic contaminants and inactivation of bacteria.
WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEMS TABLE
Catalog Number | Product Description |
ZIQ7003T0C | Milli-Q® IQ 7003 Water Purification System |
ZIQ7005T0C | Milli-Q® IQ 7005 Water Purification System |
ZIQ7010T0C | Milli-Q® IQ 7010 Water Purification System |
ZIQ7015T0C | Milli-Q® IQ 7015 Water Purification System |