Formaldehyde
Determination of Formaldehyde
These data are from a chemical experiment to prepare a standard curve for the determination of formaldehyde by the addition of chromatropic acid and concentrated sulphuric acid and the reading of the resulting purple color on a spectrophotometer.
Usage
Formaldehyde
Format
A data frame with 6 observations on 2 variables.
[,1] | carb | numeric | Carbohydrate (ml) |
[,2] | optden | numeric | Optical Density |
Source
Bennett, N. A. and N. L. Franklin (1954) Statistical Analysis in Chemistry and the Chemical Industry. New York: Wiley.
References
McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. New York: Wiley.
Examples
require(stats); require(graphics) plot(optden ~ carb, data = Formaldehyde, xlab = "Carbohydrate (ml)", ylab = "Optical Density", main = "Formaldehyde data", col = 4, las = 1) abline(fm1 <- lm(optden ~ carb, data = Formaldehyde)) summary(fm1) opar <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), oma = c(0, 0, 1.1, 0)) plot(fm1) par(opar)