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The following article has been authored by John Heaney. Calendared and sintered Stainless Steel (SS) mesh baskets are the norm for dissolution testing with good reason.  This mesh provides several benefits to the basket that not just improves it but makes it usable in a lab in the first place. Calendared mesh is made by taking the SS wire mesh and passing the mesh between two rollers held at a specific distance from each other.  The rollers press the high spots of the mesh, where the wires overlap, into the same height as the rest of the mesh.  This results...