Sustainable Spectroscopy: Analyzing Sports Drinks with Beer's Law

Kick off the school year with a hands-on experiment that brings real-world relevance to core chemistry concepts. Join Vernier chemistry experts Dr. Melissa Hill and Nüs Hisim as they demonstrate a green chemistry investigation that uses the Go Direct^® SpectroVis^® Plus to analyze food dye concentrations in popular sports drinks. This student-led experiment introduces spectroscopy as a tool for exploring molecular structure and function—and connects absorbance, transmittance, and concentration through Beer’s law in a food chemistry context.