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Calculate the concentration of lycopene in your orange fraction using using Beer's law equation
A=ExBxC
A is the measured absorbance, E is the molar extinction coefficient (M-1cm-1) at a particular wavelength, B is the path length (in cm) and C is the analyte concentration (M).
A= 0.602. Wavelenght is 500.95nm.
Molar extinction coefficients is 123,000M-1cm-1

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