Beer's Law

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Experiment Beer’s Law Abstract This experiment is to analyze samples provided by Q Company and apply Beer’s Law to determine their absorbance and prepare a Beer’s Law chart. Percent error and concentration rate is determined by Molarity of the samples. We then determined the concentration of blue dye in a drink; I used Gatorade blueberry-pomegranate. I did not receive – PVC pipe on foam block with cap, 9-volt battery, jumper cables not in the labpaq and was not able to do exercise 3. Experiment and Observations I collected all my materials together; distilled water, toothpicks, clear tape, Gatorade blueberry-pomegranate, glass beaker 100 mL, colorimeter assembly – PVC pipe on foam block with cap, 9-volt battery, jumper cables – NOT IN LABPAQ (2), FDC blue dye #1 – 2 mL in pipet, 2- 12 well test strips, pipet, fine tip, multimeter – digital, 5 test tubes, wax pencil, test tube rack. First I obtained pure M and then prepared a Beer’s Law plot with the data. I then obtained the percent transmission of the various samples. Next I obtained the percent error using the theoretical and actual values. There was a 36% error and Company Q was not in compliance with the law according to their concentration values. In the next exercise I assembled my 100 mL beaker, well, fine pipet, distilled water blue dye #1, white paper, clear tape, and Gatorade blueberry-pomegranate drink. I set the well on the white paper and numbered them 1 through 10. I taped the well down to keep it in place. Then I filled the well starting with well #1 with distilled water using the fine point pipet according to the instructions on the data table in exercise two. I continued filling each well with the proper number of drops of distilled water up to #10 which was 0. Then I used the fine pipet to fill the wells with the proper number of drops according to the data table in exercise two starting
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