Vernier® Chemical Polarimeter

Measure chiral properties without destruction.

The Polarimeter can be used to measure chiral properties of optically active samples without chemically modifying or destroying the sample. This is a vertical polarimeter that uses a 589 nm LED, a fixed polarizer, and a manually rotated polarizer to detect changes in rotation of plane-polarized light in the presence of an optically active compound. Used with Vernier technology, students no longer have to determine the optical maximum with their eye but have a graph that shows a clear change in the light’s polarization.

Sensitivity: typically up to OD 2
Optical Encoder: Bidirectional, quadrature encoder, 360 cycle per revolution
Light Source: LED
Wavelength (nominal): 589 nm

For educational use only.