Scenes from Instrumental Analysis
03/10/2008
The Instrumental Analysis class (taught by Dr. Megan Ferguson) is a core course for both the Chemistry and Environmental Geochemical Science majors. This course is a combination of theory and practice where the students learn how modern chemical instrumentation works and analyze a variety of samples using instrumental methods. The students this year will analyze for carbon monoxide in car exhaust using infrared spectroscopy, analyze cholesterol using mass spectrometry, analyze for sodium and potassium in Gatorade using atomic emission spectroscopy, and analyze gasoline using gas chromatography.
Darren Ceckanowicz (chemistry), Kari Degroot (EGS) and Kate Landi (EGS) inspect the guts the mass detector in our new gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.
Chemistry major Darren Ceckanowicz inserts a probe into a vacuum chamber to analyze a sample by mass spectrometry.
Nancy Nazarro (chemistry) and Jason Simmons (EGS) analyze samples using the fluorescence spectrometer.
Nancy Nazarro (chemistry) and Jason Simmons (EGS) analyze samples using the fluorescence spectrometer.
