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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Nicki,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">please allow another observation on
your interesting post: reorganising the collection into smaller
jars increases the monitoring need and staff time required for the
monitoring. Jars below 75 ml are more vulnerable to evaporation
loss, and even though they may not dry up entirely, the
preservation fluid might loose its preservation strength fast and
the concentration within the 20 ml jars might drop to 50% EtOH or
lower rapidly.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">To my knowledge, even though
scintillation jars are handy and small, they are not specifically
designed for long term storage, and the weak point often is the
liner inside caps, or the plastic of the lids itself. So might be
worth developing a good monitoring regime once you moved the
collection.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">With best wishes</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.06.2021 um 19:03 schrieb Nicole
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We are about to begin a major reorganization project here at
Harbor Branch to conserve on space and allow for future
growth. One part to this project includes rehousing wet
specimens into smaller size-appropriate jars, with our
smallest jar being 20mL scintillation vials, then barcoding
and organizing the jars by size. I’ve run into a dilemma with
this however, and I wanted to ask the community for
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Specimens housed in 20mL vials are currently stored in larger
8 oz jars so the handwritten collection label and printed
label (2”x 3”) are housed with the specimen. By removing the 8
oz jars though, we can save a substantial amount of space. For
example – we can house more than 5,500 scintillation jars in a
single column of shelves, as opposed to ~900 8 oz jars per
column. The problem with the small scintillation jars is that
the collection labels are too large to store inside of them.
While t<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
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numbers and unique location, I’m still uncomfortable with
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One idea is to house these labels in a near-by folder and
after this project is completed, printing off new jar-size
appropriate labels, possibly with reduced information. The
original handwritten labels will likely have to stay in this
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I’m curious if anyone else has tackled this dilemma, or might
have ideas on how they would address it if it were their own
collection?
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Forever curious, <br>
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