Beer's Law

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Courtney Sever Period 2 10/11/12 Experiment 3: Beer’s Law Purpose/Hypothesis: The reason we prefer to express the law with this equation is because absorption if directly proportional to the other parameters as long as the law is obeyed. In this experiment we are going to test different solutions and then test an unknown. Materials: CBL Colorimeter Test tubes (6( Test tube rack 8 Cuvettes Pipets Gatorade (unknown) Blue Stock solution Water Beakers Paper Towels Procedures: * Turn on the CBL, and open the apps to the Colorimeter setting. * Fill one cuvette with water, making sure the outside is completely dry, and set in the colorimeter to calibrate it. * Then label each test tube, 1-6. Using the Data table, make each solution. * Use the pipet to carefully fill each of the cuvettes with the solutions; making sure the outside is completely dry. * Test each of the cuvettes in the colorimeter to get the absorbance, and record your findings. * After each solution has been tested, fill the reaming cuvette with the unknown (Gatorade) and test the absorbance and record your findings. * When all your findings have ben recorded, rinse all the test tubes, beakers, pipets, and each cuvette Data Trials | Solution mL | Water mL | Concenration M or moles/L | Absorbtion | 1 | 2.0 | 8.0 | .08 | .83 | 2 | 4.0 | 6.0 | .16 | .127 | 3 | 6.0 | 4.0 | .24 | .196 | 4 | 8.0 | 2.0 | .32 | .205 | 5 | 9.0 | 1.0 | .36 | .237 | 6 | 10.0 | 0.0 | .40 | .255 | Unknown: Absorption: .111 Concentration: .12 Conclusion: Explain how a colorimeter works: A colorimeter works by measuring the amount of reflected light in each of three specific bands of visible light. The bands correspond to the absorption spectra of the human eye's three different color receptors. It calculates how much of the light

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