The main wet laboratory contains much of the equipment necessary for wet bench-work involving sample preparation and analysis. The facility is equipped with three fume hoods and two Barnstead Nanopure reagent water systems for the production of 18 megohm ultra-pure water free of trace metal contamination and pyrogens. The room was designed specifically to meet class 1000 specifications and to be metal free.
All flooring is composed of a hermetically seam-sealed, chemically resistant, polymer.
The wet preparation section has four Teflon coated benches that are provided ultrapure from a Barnes water system that receives house water that has been purified by reverse osmosis. A quartz still, located in a Teflon-lined chemical hood, is available for redistillation of mineral acids. An additional laminar flow hood is available for sample preparation. The second bench houses 6 mineral acid baths for cleaning and decontaminating glassware. The final two benches are mobile and are designated for sample preparation and transportation to the instrument.