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    This document describes an investigation using Beer's Law Lab simulation to analyze the color of solutions. The simulation allows users to measure how concentrated solutions absorb different wavelengths of visible light. For a potassium manganate (VII) solution, the simulation data shows it absorbs green and blue light while transmitting red light, indicating its color is purple. The document instructs users to collect spectral data to identify the colors of other solutions and which primary colors they absorb versus transmit.

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    This document describes an investigation using Beer's Law Lab simulation to analyze the color of solutions. The simulation allows users to measure how concentrated solutions absorb different wavelengths of visible light. For a potassium manganate (VII) solution, the simulation data shows it absorbs green and blue light while transmitting red light, indicating its color is purple. The document instructs users to collect spectral data to identify the colors of other solutions and which primary colors they absorb versus transmit.

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    This document describes an investigation using Beer's Law Lab simulation to analyze the color of solutions. The simulation allows users to measure how concentrated solutions absorb different wavelengths of visible light. For a potassium manganate (VII) solution, the simulation data shows it absorbs green and blue light while transmitting red light, indicating its color is purple. The document instructs users to collect spectral data to identify the colors of other solutions and which primary colors they absorb versus transmit.

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    INVESTIGATION OF A SOLUTION’S COLOR

    GETTING STARTED
    Beer’s Law Lab: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/beers-law-lab

    BEER’S LAW LAB


    1. Explore the controls in the Beer’s Law screen for a few minutes.

    Note: A spectrometer measures the amount of light absorbed by a sample in comparison to


    the amount emitted by the light source. In this tab you can investigate how a UV-Vis
    spectrometer functions. When a solution becomes more concentrated it looks darker (the
    color intensity increases). A spectrometer allows you to measure and quantify this
    phenomenon.

    2. Select the drink mix and direct green light though the solution.

    3. Investigate the intensity of the green light passing through the drink mix and graph your
    results.

    Transmi ance Absorbance


    (%)

    Drink mix Drink mix


    concentra on (mM) concentra on (mM)

    4. When green light (wavelength 508 nm) passes through 1 cm of a drink mix solution the
    absorbance is 1.20. What is the concentration of the drink mix solution?

     If the absorbance = 0.60, what is the concentration?

     If the absorbance = 0.30, what is the concentration?

     Each time the concentration is cut in half, what happens to the concentration?
    5. The output from a spectrometer for many wavelengths is called a spectrum (plural is spectra).
    A UV-Vis spectrum is shown for a KMnO4 solution, with data generated in the simulation.
    Collect a few data points; check that you get the same absorbance values.

    Absorbance Spectrum for 800 mM KMnO4


    1.8
    1.6
    1.4
    1.2
    1
    Absorbance 0.8
    0.6
    0.4
    0.2
    0
    380 430 480 530 580 630 680 730 780
    Wavelength (nm)

     Label the regions corresponding to the primary colors red, green, and blue.

     What color is the KMnO4 solution?

     Which primary colors are absorbed by the KMnO4 solution, and which are not?

    6. Now use the sim to collect data and sketch the spectrum for a different solution.

    Absorbance

    Iden fy the Red, 400 420 440 460 480 500 520 540 560 600 620 640 660 680 700 720
    Green & Blue Regions Wavelength (nm)
    (primary colors)

     What color is this solution? Which primary colors does it absorb? Which ones does it not
    absorb (these are transmitted)?

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