Site Map

Key:
* - Content prepared in 2009
** - Content prepared in 2010

• Partners*
• Project*
• Equipment
  • Spektra^TM spectrometer
    • Introduction
    • Measuring procedure
    • Developing applications
  • Multimeter
    • Introduction
    • Function keys
    • Interface
  • Portable laboratory
    • Introduction
• Experiments
  • Portable laboratory protocols
    • Water analysis
      • Introduction
      • pH
      • Acidity
      • Alkalinity
      • Water hardness
      • Lead
      • Chloride
      • Sulphate
      • Nitrate/nitrite
      • Phosphate
  • Experiments with a Spektra^TM spectrometer
    • Water analysis with a Spektra^TM spectrometer and other small-scale instruments
      • Introduction
      • Calcium
      • Hydrogen phosphate
      • Chloride
      • Ammonium
      • Nitrite
      • Hydrogen carbonate
      • Total water hardness
      • pH
      • Conductivity and TDS
    • Analysis of food products and beverages
      • Color of sweet paprika
      • Iron in condiments
      • Iron in flour
      • Phosphates in apple juice
      • Phosphates in meat products
      • Nitrite in meat products (1)
      • Nitrite in meat products (2)
      • Alcohol in spirit
      • Color of beer
      • Glucose
      • Casein in curd*
      • Alcohol in wine**
      • Ethanol in fruit juice**
    • Light and colour
    • Lambert-Beer's Law
      • Hands on approach to Lambert-Beer's law
      • Effect of stray light on Lambert-Beer's law**
    • Chemical equilibrium
      • Le Chatelier's principle
      • Experiment 1
      • Experiment 2
      • Adsorption isotherms
      • Dilution effect*
      • Determination of indicator pK_a*
    • Kinetics of chemical reactions
      • Oxidation of alcohols
      • Aspirin hydrolisis
    • Environmental analysis
      • Sprectrometric determination of phosphates in soil*
      • Determination of ammonium in water**
      • Removal of copper ions from wastewaters**
      • Determination of iron in groundwater**
    • Materials analysis
      • Determining percentage by weight of manganese in steel**
    • Multicompoment analysis
      • Concurrent determination of chromium(III) and cobalt(II) ions**
    • Biotechnology
      • Alcohol fermentation (1)*
      • Alcohol fermentation (2)**
      • Algae growth**
      • Yeast growth**
    • Laboratory medicine
      • Determination of serum proteins concentration**
      • Determination of serum chloride concentration using the calibration curve**
    • Outreach activities
      • Dilution of blue food colouring*
      • Tea concentration*
      • Sugar quantity in drink**
    • University support of vocational schools
      • Introduction**
      • Soil pollution with PAHs**
      • Vitamin E in sunflower**
      • Isolation of plant dyes**
  • Spektra^TM upgraded into other analytical instruments
    • Gas chromatograph
      • A simplified gas chromatograph
        • Transfer into school
    • Liquid chromatograph
      • Type 1
      • Type 2
        • Transfer into school
      • Type 3
    • Computerized data acquisition from Spektra^TM spectrometer
    • Chemiluminescence**
      
  • Spektra^TM UV Version
  • UV spectroscopy and sun-creams**
• Results**
• References**
• Links**