Search ASTI Website & Documents Database

Quick Tips for best Search Results:

1. Make sure to include the word "ion" for any ion selective searches.
2. Make sure to use quotation marks ("") if you want to match an exact phrase, for example enter "fluoride ion", rather than just fluoride ion (without quotes).

Scope of Documents Searched

This search engine helps you find documents (HTML & PDF Only) on the ASTI website.

Using Phrases

You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Example: To find information on our fluoride ion selective sensors, type "fluoride ion" in the search box, and this will return all documents pertaining to fluoride ion measurement.  You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.

Simple Tips for More Exact Searches

Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR".

By default, all searches are accent insensitive.

Including or excluding words:

To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Example: To find a webpage with only ion selective electrode information try "+electrodes -sensor".

Expand your search using wildcards (*):

By typing an * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.

Example: Try meter* to find meter and meters.

Fancy Features for Typical Searches

You can search more than just text. For example:

text:text
Finds pages that contain the specified text in the body of the document. By way of comparison, searches without the "text:" attribute will scan the URL, title, links, and META tags as well as the document body.