Beer's law and spectrophotometry Flashcards

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Spectrophotometry

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a method of measuring how much light a substance absorbs. You measure this be testing the intensity of the light beam as it passes through the sample solution

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Beer’s Law:

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the amount of light absorbed is portional to the concentration of the solution
not valid at high solution concentrations

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Beer’s law formula

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Absorbance= molar absorpivity x length of light path x concentration

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