Principles of Instrumental Analysis
Principles of Instrumental Analysis
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ISBN: 9781305577213
Author: Douglas A. Skoog, F. James Holler, Stanley R. Crouch
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 13, Problem 13.19QAP
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In a spectrophotometer, the origin of shot noise needs to be described. The variation in the relative uncertainty with concentration needs to be explained if short noise is the major noise source.

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The term noise in analytical chemistry refers to the collection of all sources of unwanted signals from the particular instrument. So noise related to spectrophotometry is the collection of interfering signals occurs during a measurement.

Relative concentration uncertainty is,

Relative concentration uncertainty = Absolute uncertainty of concentrationCalculated concentration 

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