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8.7. Soil commonly contains water.Why are water and infrared spectroscopy
not compatible?
8.8. Explain why water is rarely used as a solvent in NMR spectroscopy.
8.9. Mass spectroscopy is useful because it can determine what important
characteristic of a compound?
8.10. Explain, giving at least two reasons, why using UV–Vis or mass spectroscopy
as a detector for chromatography might be beneficial.
8.11. A researcher randomly picks test tubes and uses them in the spectrophotometer
and obtains confusing results. Explain how this can
happen.
8.12. Explain what a calibration curve is and how it is used.
8.13. Two researchers prepare calibration curves; one researcher’s curve has
an r2 of 0.9977 the other, an r2 of 0.9845. Which is the better calibration
curve? Explain how you came to this conclusion; be specific.
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