You're worrying me. I thought I understood spectroscopy pretty well. Now I think I may have just wasted a bunch of time building the raindrop mass spec as judging from your videos I won't be able to use it to identify anything but light or maybe to judge solution density which is 100% useless for me. I wanted to be able to identify elements like in soil samples,water, or drugs and the such?
IR is generally considered useful for identifying specific functional groups as it examines bond vibrational energies. If a laboratory and technique is set up for it, IR could certainly be used for further identification purposes (the fingerprint region can be useful in this regard). You need to keep in context that this course is designed for most university organic chemistry lectures, it is not an advanced spectroscopy course.
@@ChemComplete Yeah right on. Like I said, I built the raindrop mass spec as outlined in the thoughtemporium video on it hoping to be able to tell whats in soil samples water and drugs and the like but now I'm just stuck with a big doofy overpriced diffraction grating that can't do dill but tell me what color is what color or concentration guesstimates based off pure known samples -_-
Thanks a lot for making these amazing videos. I am actually learning more from your videos than my professor and the textbook.
I really wish I had you as my Professor. Thank you so much for putting the effort to make these spectrometry videos👍🏼.
You're worrying me. I thought I understood spectroscopy pretty well. Now I think I may have just wasted a bunch of time building the raindrop mass spec as judging from your videos I won't be able to use it to identify anything but light or maybe to judge solution density which is 100% useless for me. I wanted to be able to identify elements like in soil samples,water, or drugs and the such?
IR is generally considered useful for identifying specific functional groups as it examines bond vibrational energies. If a laboratory and technique is set up for it, IR could certainly be used for further identification purposes (the fingerprint region can be useful in this regard). You need to keep in context that this course is designed for most university organic chemistry lectures, it is not an advanced spectroscopy course.
@@ChemComplete Yeah right on. Like I said, I built the raindrop mass spec as outlined in the thoughtemporium video on it hoping to be able to tell whats in soil samples water and drugs and the like but now I'm just stuck with a big doofy overpriced diffraction grating that can't do dill but tell me what color is what color or concentration guesstimates based off pure known samples -_-