Identify a wide range of unknown chemicals and explosives in the field using FTIR spectroscopy. Quick and accurate identification of potential explosives or hazardous materials is critical to ensuring the safety of hazardous substance teams and other first responders, as well as the community. Thermo Scientific™ TruDefender™ FTX handheld chemical identification analyzers enable effective incident response, providing rapid and actionable information to mitigate potential threats. Based on FTIR spectroscopy, the TruDefender FTX provides easy sampling of solid and liquid chemicals in the field using the self-contained anvil sampling head.

The instrument takes measurements in real time, performs identification and is ready for a new measurement within tens of seconds.

The TruDefender™ FTX spectrometer can determine a wide range of compounds, depending on the spectrum libraries pre-loaded in the instrument memory.

Applications:
Identify unknown chemicals in the instrument’s spectrum libraries; perform direct identification of compounds in mixtures.