Physical Chemistry Lab Course

Brilliant green solvolysis

German version

Virtual lab course: Time-dependent extinction

This virtual lab course consists of a photometer, which determines the extinction of a sample at a fixed wavelength as a function of time. The extinction is calculated from the Lambert-Beer law according to the sample composition as well as simulated statistical noise.

The sample in this simulation is a mixture of brilliant green and carbinol base. The composition of the mixture is determined according to the kinetics described in the instructions.

You can restart the brilliant green solvolysis (which would correspond to a new preparation in the lab). The buffer solution can be selected below. Changing the buffer solution also leads to an automatic restart of the reaction.

The accuracy of the extinction of the photometer and the pH meter are as follows, respectively:

\begin{align*} \Delta E &= \pm 0.001 \; , \\ \Delta\mathrm{pH} &= \pm 0.01 \; . \end{align*}
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Error

Photometer

Wavelength for the measurement
Solution
\text{pH} =
Cuvette
Time since start of the measurement: s
Ordinate:

Recorded time series

The fits are performed with \log\left(\frac{E}{E_0}\right) = mt without error weighting.