What you are looking at are individual soybeans digesting in Nitric acid. This process breaks down almost every molecule in the bean to its elemental components, which allows us to quantify the levels of each element within the sample using ICP-MS. The renovations to the lab are finally complete and we are starting to work out the kinks in the process. Pretty soon we will be able to start working our way through the backlog of samples that have accumulated in our lab.
