Thank you giving a detailed explanation and a very quickly too. I just have a few more questions if that's okay. When taking a polarimeter measurement do you ignore the colours and take a minimum light reading anyway? for some reason not all the light is lost when I have rotated the second...
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I am a 17 year old college student from the UK carrying out an experiment to build a polarimeter to determine the specific rotation of sugars. However, I have a problem when I shine polarised light through my sucrose solution and turn the analyser polariser filter I see colours ranging...