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Using the method of differential absorption to determine the ethanol content of an unknown sample [closed]
I have completed a whole set of FITR-ATR spectra analysing 6 solutions of ethanol-water mixtures, all at different concentrations of each.
I have now been instructed to use the method of differential ...
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When making a calibration curve, do we have to use the wavelength at maximum absorbance?
If you are making a calibration curve for $\ce{CuSO4}$ where you plot absorbance against concentration, does the wavelength have to be exactly at the maximum of the peak? Or can it be somewhere else ...
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Sulfur atomic absorption
Would the atomic absorption from FAA for Sulfur be from 3s2 -> 3p4 or 3p4 -> 4s0?
I think according to the electronic partition function, there would be zero electrons in the 4s0 state at the ...
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