Facilities Available

• Graphite furnace atomizer
• Hydride generator system
• Cold vapour system (for mercury generation)
• Autosampler

Applications
AAS is very specific and has great freedom from interferences. Its range of application is wide and found popular application in the following areas:

• Health:  routine clinical-chemical analyses for elemental determination
• Food Industry:Elemental concentration of major and trace elements in food stuffs and drinks.
• Agriculture:  Soil, fertilizer and plants.
• Hydrology: Water and sediments
• Environment: Air, waste water, sewage sludge, refuse and garbage.
• Solid Minerals: Rocks, Minerals and Ores
• Petrochemical:Crude oil
• Materials: Ceramics, Cement and glass.

Achievements
Services rendered to the following on a regular basis

• Obafemi Awolowo University Community
• Nearly all the Universities in the southern zone of Nigeria
• Water, sediment and plants have been analysed for major oil companies in the country.

• X-Ray Fluorescence Laboratory
• 1.7MV Pelletron Tandem Accelerator
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) Laboratory
• Gamma Spectrometry Laboratory
• Radiation Safety and Control Laboratory
• Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Laboratory (GC-MS)
• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer Laboratory
• Mechanical Workshop
• Electronics And Nuclear Instrumentation Laboratories
• Energy Efficiency and Management Laboratory
• Atmospheric Research & Information Analyses Laboratory (ARIAL)
• Computerized Instron Machine
• Precision Mini X-ray Diffratometer
• Differential Thermal Analyzer

• Guest House