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Topic: How is Beer-Lambert's Law applied to solutions with more than one solute?  (Read 2241 times)

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Offline Anomalee1

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How is Beer-Lambert's Law applied to solutions with more than one solute?
« on: November 21, 2016, 04:48:56 AM »
Having trouble answering this, any ideas?
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Re: How is Beer-Lambert's Law applied to solutions with more than one solute?
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2016, 07:46:10 AM »
What are your thoughts?  It is a forum rule that you must provide your answer or your thoughts before we can help you.
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Re: How is Beer-Lambert's Law applied to solutions with more than one solute?
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2016, 10:28:44 AM »
If no quenching or matrix effects play a role, then you should be able to add up the lambert-beer equations for each compound, right?
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Re: How is Beer-Lambert's Law applied to solutions with more than one solute?
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2016, 10:42:24 AM »
That sounds entirely reasonable to me.  If you take data at a single wavelength, will you have enough information to find the concentration of each component individually?
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