Company makes DIY spectrometer for home analysis

http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometer


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[3 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

You wouldn't be legally able to pourchase the calibration samples of common illegal drugs.

The mass spectrometer is easy to calibrate. Carbon is 12 etc. The retention times of the gas chromatograph front end used to be quite difficult. Its probably a lot easier now with decent computers (last time I ran one it used an IBM 286 PC, early 90s)


[2 Points] ShulginsCat:

Can any chem-heads here confirm that this could (potentially) be used to detect the chemical composition of a pill/powder?


[2 Points] ShulginsCat:

Also this:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/news/a16270/tiny-spectrometer/


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Oh, they optical and UV spectrometers.

No. Not really.