Advanced Placement / Chemistry

Percent Copper in Brass (Spectrometer)

Students use a spectrometer to create a Beer's law plot of known copper solution concentrations from...

College / ChemistryPhysics

Hydrogen Emission and Absorption Spectra

Students use a spectrometer, fiber optics cable, a hydrogen gas spectrum lamp, and the sun to compare...

College / Chemistry

Equilibrium of Sugar Mutarotation

Students use a polarimeter to determine the α- and β-anomer concentrations of a D-glucose solution at equilibrium, and calculate the equilibrium constant.

College / Chemistry

Sunscreens: Conjugation and UV Protection

Students use a UV-Vis spectrometer to observe the absorbance of various suncreens in the UVA and...

College / Chemistry

Analysis of Aspirin Tablets

Students use a UV-Vis spectrometer to determine the mass of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) in a single aspirin tablet and compare the results to the ASA content...

College / Chemistry

Sugar Concentration through Polarimetry: Biot's Law

Students use a polarimeter and Biot's law to determine the unknown concentration of several sucrose...

College / Chemistry

Kinetics of Sugar Rotation

Students use a polarimeter determine reaction order and rate constant of an acid-catalyzed sucrose hydrolysis reaction and an invertase-catalyzed reaction.

College / Chemistry

Specific Rotation of Sugar

Students use a polarimeter to experimentally determine the specific rotation of the sucrose molecule.

College / Chemistry

Sugar Concentration through Polarimetry

Students use a polarimeter to determine the unknown concentration of a sucrose solution.

High School / ChemistryEnvironmental Science

Measuring Nitrate Concentration

Nitrates are important fertilizer for plant growth. Nitrates are also highly soluble. High concentrations can cause problems in surface water if they spur...

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