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Limitation to Beer’s Law

Beer’s law suggests that a calibration curve is a straight line with a y-intercept of zero and a slope of εb. In many cases a calibration curve deviates from this ideal behavior, as shown here. One limitation to Beer’s law is … Continue reading

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Beer’s Law

Absorbance is the more common unit for expressing the attenuation of radiation because it is a linear function of the analyte’s concentration. When monochromatic electromagnetic radiation passes through an infinitesimally thin layer of sample of thickness dx, it experiences a decrease … Continue reading

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