Facilities
The Chemistry and Physics Department at Frostburg State University is home to modern undergraduate teaching and research laboratories and state-of-the-art equipment. The laboratories are housed in the Compton Science Center, erected in 2003.
Instruments
All chemistry and physics majors and minors get the opportunity to use state-of-the-art instrumentation in their upper division courses. Some of the instruments available for use include:
- Thermo Nicolet 6700 Fourrier Transform Infrared Spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu GC-17A Gas Chromatrographs
- Shimadzu GC-17A/GCMS QP5050 Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
- Shimadzu LC10AD/LCMS2010A Liquid Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer
- Shimadzu AA-6800 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer
- Shimadzu ICPE 9000 Iductively-Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu DSC60 Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Shimadzu TGA50 Thermogravimetric Analyzer
- Shimadzu UV3101PC Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-Infrared Scanning Spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu RT5301PC Fluorospectrophotometer