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Cuvette facts for kids

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Cuvette with penny
A plastic cuvette. A penny is included to compare size.

A cuvette is a kind of laboratory glassware, usually a small tube of circular or square cross shape, closed at one end and open at the other, made of plastic, glass, or optical grade quartz and made to hold samples for spectroscopic experiments. The best cuvettes are as clear as possible, without impurities that might affect a spectroscopic reading. Like a test tube, a cuvette may be open to the air on top or have a glass or other material to close it.


Images for kids

  • DNS containing solution in a cuvette

    Dansyl chloride solution in a cuvette

  • 2 sizes of cuvette

    1 mL and 3 mL cuvettes

  • A cuvette in a spectrophotometer

    A cuvette in a spectrophotometer

  • Quart cuvette 2

    Quartz cuvette

  • Cuvette with PTFE Cover

    A UV quartz cuvette

  • Measured absorbance of solution filled in a cuvette

    UV-VIS spectrophotometer used with cuvette

  • Placing a cuvette in the spectrophotometry machine

    Pointing the clear side of cuvette toward the light source

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Cubeta (química) para niños

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