Raman spectroscopy for the undergraduate teaching laboratory: Quantification of ethanol concentration in consumer alcoholic beverages and qualitative identification of marine diesels using a miniature raman spectrometer

Spectroscopy Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 903-924

  Cleveland, Danielle ^a   Carlson, Matthew ^a,b   Hudspeth, Evan D ^a,c   Quattrochi, Lauren E ^a,e   Batchler, Kathleen L ^a,d   Balram, Shrimati A ^a   Hong, Seongun ^a   Michel, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S COAST GUARD ACADEMY   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration curve; Consumer products; Environmental samples; Ethanol in alcoholic beverages; Fuel oil spills; Method development; Petroleum products; Portable Raman instrumentation; Qualitative analysis; Quantitative analysis; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648937020     PISSN: 00387010     EISSN: 15322289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00387010701525638     Document Type: Article

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