Reflectance Spectroscopy Using Wine Bottle Glass: An Undergraduate Experiment
María Gabriela Lagorio INQUIMAE and Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Determination of the number of absorbing chromophores in light-scattering media is illustrated in this experiment. Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy is used to evaluate this quantity, both for a solid and for a suspension. Results are compared with the absorbance spectrum of the chromophore in a transparent nonscattering matrix.
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Lagorio, Mar’a Gabriela. J. Chem. Educ.1999 76 1551.
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