Practice - Environmental Analysis: Quality Control – Part 3
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Practice Questions
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What is an analyte?
💡 Hint: Think of what you are trying to find in a chemical test.
Name one factor that can cause analyte loss.
💡 Hint: Consider events that might change a sample's concentration.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the primary purpose of quality control in environmental analysis?
💡 Hint: Think about why maintaining trust in results is important in science.
True or False: Analyte loss can only occur during the transport phase.
💡 Hint: Consider the entire process from collection to measurement.
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Challenge Problems
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Design an experiment to measure the recovery of a target analyte in a polluted water sample. Identify key steps and potential sources of error.
💡 Hint: Consider each stage from collection to analysis and how each could potentially introduce errors.
Critically evaluate the impact of matrix effects when analyzing organic pollutants in soil. What strategies could mitigate these effects?
💡 Hint: Think about how soil composition could interfere with standard analyte measurements.
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