Talk:Variable pathlength cell
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Consolidation
[edit]I am of the opinion that this article should be added to the Beer-Lambert article. My reasons:
- this article is short
- this article depends heavily on the Beer-Lambert article, so much so that that article is be summarized here
Precision vs. Accuracy
[edit]In the Application section, the following statement is made
- "Slope spectroscopy is typically used when highly reproducible data is a necessity. This can be in the fields of medicine, biotechnology, pharmacology, and drug discovery. It is particularly useful in the protein purification stage of biotechnology where accurate concentrations of various proteins are required or in crystallography."
This passage mentions minimizing errors that affect precision (reproducibility) AND accuracy. Accuracy in concentration measurements found by spectroscopic means is mainly a matter of determining the precise extinction coefficient. It has little to do with the slope technique.
neffk (talk) 17:14, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Promotional
[edit]Article seems to be promoting this [1]. --Kkmurray (talk) 16:19, 14 December 2010 (UTC)