{"id":706,"date":"2011-04-20T00:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T04:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:26:56","slug":"preliminary-absorbance-data-for-various-liquors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary absorbance data for various liquors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were able to analyze the absorbances of five samples of alcohol: gin, whiskey, light tequila, dark tequila, and grain alcohol. Interestingly, absorbance peaks were similar for gin, light tequila, and grain alcohol (samples 1, 4, and 5, respectively); both whiskey (2) and dark tequila (3) had unique absorbance spectra:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_707\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-707\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"Data\" width=\"436\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/Picture-1.png 436w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/Picture-1-300x269.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data table of absorbance peaks.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The absorbance data correlates with qualitative observations of color:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_708\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/2011-04-18_22-54-08_679.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-708 \" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/2011-04-18_22-54-08_679-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/2011-04-18_22-54-08_679-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/04\/2011-04-18_22-54-08_679-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right, water, gin, whiskey, dark tequila, light tequila, and grain alcohol in spectrophotometry cuvettes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We will analyze the data and create a song to present to the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were able to analyze the absorbances of five samples of alcohol: gin, whiskey, light tequila, dark tequila, and grain alcohol. Interestingly, absorbance peaks were similar for gin, light tequila, and grain alcohol (samples 1, 4, and 5, respectively); both whiskey (2) and dark tequila (3) had unique absorbance spectra: The absorbance data correlates with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}