Water plays various roles in industrial, educational, medical, and research laboratories depending upon properties such as water purity, sterility, and additives. Products can be used in chemical analysis, as solvents, as reactants, in sample preparation, etc.
Premade and ready-to-use water-acetonitrile blend (60:40) with 0.1% formic acid serves as a wash solution to clean sample and liquid chromatography injection probes. Commonly used as an auto-sampler cleaning solution in LC-MS.