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CHM 110-01 and CHM 110-02: Some experiment 7 notes

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If you’re in the Wednesday morning or Tuesday afternoon CHM 110 labs (sections 1 or 2), you’re probably working on your report for experiment 7.  To finish your report for Experiment 7 (the cobalt chloride spectrometry lab), you’ll need to do two main things.

  1. Plot the data from test tubes 1-7 to find the Beer’s Law constant, k.
  2. Use Beer’s Law to determine the concentration of the unknown.

Click the link below for some help making the Beer’s Law plot and calculating the concentration of your unknown.

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