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Can you correct for not blanking a spectrophotometer?
Here's the short, I used a broken spectrophotometer to check for phosphates. Couldn't blank it, but I wrote down the numbers that I got anyways. Is there anyway to convert the numbers or something or is it no good?
1 Answer
- 9 years ago
Probably not any good. I don't know what model you used, but my guess is one of the following happened:
1) You used a default blank (if your model does that - I'm no expert on models)
2) You used the same blank that the person before you used, which might or might not help
3) Your sample works the same as a blank would have
If you're doing a lab report for a class, you could probably just let it go but mention it in your possible source of error, but if this is a real project, you should probably start over.
