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nadezda [96]
3 years ago
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What was the purpose of putting distilled water in the blank cuvette? if your unknown used ethanol as the base solvent, what wou

ld the blank consist of?
Chemistry
1 answer:
Margaret [11]3 years ago
7 0

The purpose of using distilled water in the cuvette of the spectrophotometer is to calibrate the instrument. It is generally considered that distilled water shows zero absorbance and 100 % transmittance. So, to zero out the absorbance of compounds other than the analyte being determined, distilled water is used as a blank.

If the unknown being determined is prepared using ethanol as the base solution, the blank used must be ethanol. This is because absorbance if any from the solvent, ethanol must be zeroed out as when the measurement of the actual unknown is being made, the absorbance of the solvent does not interfere.

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