Well today wasn't especially exciting or boring. But it was smelly. Dr. Hornak asked Nicole and I to do another time series on the UV-Vis spectrometer with copper and one drop of diethylamine. Now the compound diethylamine does not sound or look threatening in any way, shape, or form; however, once you crack the top off the vial, 'your nostrils begin to burn', as Nicole put it. Personally, I think is smells like really, really mad skunk that just sprayed everywhere. If we brought a vial of this stuff to our morning meeting, all of the interns would be cleared out of the reading room in 30 seconds flat, I guarantee. So the point of this story is that diethylamine smells really bad.
So onto what we actually did today. When Nicole and I mixed the copper and diethylamine in the cuvett the solution turned blue; however after an hour of doing the test brown particular matter had precipitated to the bottom of the cuevett. No more blue to be found. As a result our absorbance data was weird, but Dr. Hornak said it was fine. So then we moved on to a more diluted concentration to see what happened... nothing exciting, but overall normal. So we spent the rest of the day finding the peaks in the data and making the absorbance vs time graphs. Yep, how exciting!!!!
:) Sorry no pic todayyyy
So onto what we actually did today. When Nicole and I mixed the copper and diethylamine in the cuvett the solution turned blue; however after an hour of doing the test brown particular matter had precipitated to the bottom of the cuevett. No more blue to be found. As a result our absorbance data was weird, but Dr. Hornak said it was fine. So then we moved on to a more diluted concentration to see what happened... nothing exciting, but overall normal. So we spent the rest of the day finding the peaks in the data and making the absorbance vs time graphs. Yep, how exciting!!!!
:) Sorry no pic todayyyy
