DPX300 Is Being Upgraded to a 500! (2) The 500 Is Born…

 

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(1) Arrived! … in pieces.

 

 

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(2) magnet is lifted and assembled.

 

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(3) Cloud… formed by cold helium gas. Quenched when ramping up the field.

 

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(4) Succeeded on the second try. The curve on the screen is the first NMR spectrum from our new 500. It does not resemble anything like our typical NMR spectra though? – Engineers will still need to do cryo-shim and room-T shim to make the peak sharper (about 10,000 times sharper than what’s on the screen).