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An analysis system has a first storage area in which sample and reagent materials are stored at an appropriate storage temperature and a second (analysis) area which is maintained at a controlled and stabilized higher temperature at which the analysis is to be performed. A plurality of analysis cuve

An analysis system has a first storage area in which sample and reagent materials are stored at an appropriate storage temperature and a second (analysis) area which is maintained at a controlled and stabilized higher temperature at which the analysis is to be performed. A plurality of analysis cuvettes of long thermal time constant material are stored adjacent the second storage area for time intervals sufficient for those analysis cuvettes to be equilibrated to the analysis temperature. A transport mechanism in the second storage area is adapted to transport the equilibrated analytical cuvettes sequentially from the supply station to a load station, then to an analysis station and then to a used cuvette station, and a transfer mechanism is arranged for movement between the first and second storage areas for transferring quantities of sample and reagent from the first storage for loading into the equilibrated analytical cuvette at the loading station in the second storage area.

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An analysis system of the fast centrifugal analyzer type, comprising a first storage area for storing sample materials at an appropriate storage temperature, a second area which is maintained at a controlled and stabilized higher temperature at which the analysis is to be performed, structure defini

An analysis system of the fast centrifugal analyzer type, comprising a first storage area for storing sample materials at an appropriate storage temperature, a second area which is maintained at a controlled and stabilized higher temperature at which the analysis is to be performed, structure defining an analysis station and structure defining a supply station in said second area, means for storing a pluraity of multicuvette rotors of long thermal time constant material adjacent said supply station structure for time intervals sufficient for those rotors to be equilibrated to the analysis temperature, said means for storing multicuvette rotors including feeder structure for disposing multicuvette rotors in spaced stacked relation, a thermal energy exchange system comprising a refrigerant circuit having a refrigerant circuit portion, means for flowing refrigerant through said circuit portion, flow control means for varying without blocking the flow of refrigerant through said circuit portion, flow circulation means for flowing an air stream through a recirculation loop in heat exchange relation to said circuit portion and through said second area, means for sensing the temperature of said air stream and operating said flow control means to control refrigerant flow in said circuit portion to maintain the temperature of said air stream substantially at said higher temperature, said flow circulation means flowing said air stream at said higher temperature through spaced multicuvette rotors in said stack in heat exchange relation thereto to thermally equilibrate multicuvette rotors to said analysis temperature, transport mechanism in said second area adapted to transport equilibrated multicuvette rotors sequentially from said supply station to said analysis station in said second storage area and then to a used rotor station, and transfer mechanism arranged for movement between said first and second storage areas for transferring a quantity of sample material from said first storage area for loading into an equilibrated rotor in said second storage area.