{"id":69210,"date":"2005-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/dart-spectrometry-developer-to-lecture-at-uri-on-oct-28\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T00:00:00","slug":"dart-spectrometry-developer-to-lecture-at-uri-on-oct-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/dart-spectrometry-developer-to-lecture-at-uri-on-oct-28\/","title":{"rendered":"DART spectrometry developer to lecture at 溏心vlog免费B站 on Oct. 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I &#8212; October 24, 2005 &#8212; Robert Cody, the co-developer of JEOL USA Inc.\u2019s revolutionary DART mass spectrometry device, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership series Friday, Oct. 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nCody\u2019s presentation, \u201cMass Spectrometry: An Essential Forensic Tool,\u201d will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 124 of Pastore Hall on the Kingston campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMass spectrometers analyze the molecular weight of unknown substances; however, they require a lengthy sample preparation time and can take hours to finish. When DART (an acronym for direct analysis in real time) technology is used in combination with a computer and a regular mass spectrometer device, the identity and amount of an unknown chemical agent is discovered immediately and without a sample preparation. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAt its unveiling in February, Cody demonstrated how sunscreen and insect repellent are easily detected on a one dollar bill. He explained how hospitals could use the machine in emergency rooms to aid unconscious patients who overdose on unknown substances. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe government has taken interest in the device for purposes of homeland security and defense operations. Through a nondisclosure agreement, it has been in use at the U.S. Army\u2019s Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center in Maryland for the past year and a half. Chemist H. Dupont Durst has worked with DART to analyze chemicals commonly found in weapons of mass destruction. In one laboratory experiment, he analyzed a bird feather spiked with the VX nerve agent. Under normal conditions, analysis of VX could take four to eight hours, but with the DART technology, it took four seconds. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I &#8212; October 24, 2005 &#8212; Robert Cody, the co-developer of JEOL USA Inc.\u2019s revolutionary DART mass spectrometry device, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Forensic Science Partnership series Friday, Oct. 28. &#13; Cody\u2019s presentation, \u201cMass Spectrometry: An Essential Forensic Tool,\u201d will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 124 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}