Instrument: Homogenizer

Dataset: 
West Antarctic Isoscape Data
Instrument: 
Homogenizer
Instrument Short Name: Homogenizer
Instrument Description:

A homogenizer is a piece of laboratory equipment used for the homogenization of various types of material, such as tissue, plant, food, soil, and many others.

PI supplied instrument name: tissue homogenizer
Dataset-specific description

Krill were homogenized with a Virtis “45” tissue homogenizer (Virtis Co., Inc.) before freeze-drying. Phytoplankton samples were manually homogenized after freeze-drying. Zooplankton from the Oden and L. M. Gould cruises, sorted by taxon at each station were freeze-dried at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) using a Labconco Freeze Dry System (Lyph Lock 4.5) at -40 ˚C for ~ 48 hours and then manually homogenized.