RE: CSspectrophotometer readings

2008-07-29 Thread Jim Meissner yahoo
-Original Message- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:59 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CSspectrophotometer readings I assume Peter's talking about an instrument that measures absorption/transmission through the liquid, Ken! Atomic absorption

Re: CSspectrophotometer readings

2008-07-28 Thread M. G. Devour
I assume Peter's talking about an instrument that measures absorption/transmission through the liquid, Ken! Atomic absorption spectrophotometry is another animal alltogether. Peter, did you run a control sample of plain distilled water with which to compare? A quick visual scan of your data

Re: CSspectrophotometer readings

2008-07-28 Thread Ode Coyote
Since a [AA} spectrophotometer essentially vaporizes a sample into a plasma, why would particle size be any part of that? ode At 04:03 PM 7/28/2008 +1000, you wrote: Dear csers, I recently had the opportunity to play with a spectrophotometer.Using the instruction book procedures

Re: CSspectrophotometer readings

2008-07-28 Thread David Bearrow
Pete, You'll have to use the Mie solution to Maxwell's equations to solve that. The following online calculator will assist you. http://www.lightscattering.de/MieCalc/eindex.html Dave At 01:03 AM 7/28/2008, you wrote: Dear cs'ers, I recently had the opportunity to play with a

RE: CSspectrophotometer readings

2008-07-28 Thread Mclennan, Peter D
: CSspectrophotometer readings I assume Peter's talking about an instrument that measures absorption/transmission through the liquid, Ken! Atomic absorption spectrophotometry is another animal alltogether. Peter, did you run a control sample of plain distilled water with which to compare? A quick