difficulty:medium
difficulty:medium


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mathew "I just bought the air pump components and a graduated cylinder to try and compare @davidmack's cheapo air meter... can't wait. I'm going to try us..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
straylight "Good points and I understand how you feel, coming at his from a chemistry teachers viewpoint myself. I guess it depends on what experiments and dem..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
srpratt "I'm new to the cellphone-becomes-a-photospec phenomenon, as I was told about this by a colleague. As an AP Chem teacher, I'm looking for hacks to ..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
nshapiro "I think so. Those tubes require one pump on the Draeger Tube proprietary pump. So if one were to rent their proprietary pump for a single day and a..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
sara "Exciting stuff! Do you think this method could work for other pump based tubes like these http://www.buydraegertubes.com/hydrogensulfide02b.aspx " | Read more » about 10 years ago
ichinarayan "ok thanks so much " | Read more » about 10 years ago
straylight "In spectral workbench, when you are looking at a spectra, there is an option to export and save the data in a variety of formats, including xml and..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
ichinarayan "wow beyond belief. i thought it was complicated listing program. and how do you exported the spectra image into csv form? thanks a lot " | Read more » about 10 years ago
nshapiro "That sounds like a great idea. The flow meter remains the most expensive component so reducing this cost is clutch. This sounds like something that..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
DavidMack "The commercial air flow meters are easy to use and come with NIST traceable certificates but you can make your own air flow meter for lab use that ..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
straylight "Thanks for the question ichinarayan, I exported the spectra in csv form into microsoft excel. From there I selected the wavelengths I wanted to st..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
ichinarayan "what software do you use for your analisis program used to generated graph? " | Read more » about 10 years ago
stoft "Ok, so the plots are absorption; which makes more sense. However, the Y axis is labeled "Intensity". It would be more clear to either plot relative..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
ygzstc "Dave - Thanks a lot for the insights...As you said, when I add oil sample, intensity decreases and since the plots above is the difference between ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
jeffh "Very nice work. I checked the listing for the lamp, and if you are using the original bulb, it is a "warm white" with color temperature of 2700 deg..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
stoft "Nice experiment. As I recall, white LEDs have a significant 'bump' at about 430nm, a dip at 470nm and a broad peak about 600nm so I assume the 470 ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
liz "Wow this is fantastic!!! I can't wait to try this method~! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
ygzstc "Jeff, I am sure it can be done. However, coding is not my strong suit :( I may help on theory and algorithm development though... Cfastie, you are..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "This is excellent research. Do you think if I bought some "100% extra virgin olive oil" and sent you a sample, you could tell me if it was really 1..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Wow, this is spectacular -- thanks! I'm wondering if there's a way we could write a macro for Spectral Workbench to do this kind of analysis in rea..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "This is fantastic to see carried out so methodically. " | Read more » over 11 years ago
warren "Hi, Chris - i copied this down from YouTube but the version I got was a bit pixellated. Any way you could post the original so we can reduce copyin..." | Read more » over 11 years ago
mathew "Nice! i find my beans won't twine around poles that are smooth, they'll only twine around the textured bark of sticks or rope, preferably manila or..." | Read more » over 11 years ago