Pink is My Favorite Color (Day 2 Standardization Continued)

Check out these beauts!

Fig. 1 (From left to right): Standard Blank, Standard, Reagent Blank, Cornstarch Samples "1", "5", "10"

The intensity of the pink color pictured above is proportional to the original glucose percentage. I got absorption readings of 0.02, 1.2, .185, .22, .41, and .95, respectively (at 540nm).

Also, this was my work area:

Fig. 2

...Cozy, no?

(That labeled bottle on the left is the sulfuric acid solution! And the paper on the right - that's my procedure bible.)

I'm going to take these measurements home and plug them into my calculations, and see what I'll get for the percent starch. 

This is so cool!!! :)