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A cuvette is a small tube of circular or square cross section, sealed at one end, made of plastic, glass, or fused quartz (for UV light) and designed to hold samples for spectroscopic experiments. Disposable plastic cuvettes are often used in fast spectroscopic assays, where speed is more important than high accuracy. Glass cuvettes are typically for use in the wavelength range of visible light and fused quartz tends to be used in the UV through NIR ranges. Some cuvettes will be clear only on opposite sides, so that they pass a single beam of light through that pair of sides; often the unclear sides have ridges or are rough to allow easy handling. Cuvettes to be used in fluorescence spectroscopy〔(An Introduction to Fluorescence Spectroscopy ) Perkin Elmer Inc. 2006. Retrieved 15 August 2013〕 must be clear on all four sides because fluorescence is measured at a right-angle to the beam path to limit contributions from beam itself. Some cuvettes, known as tandem cuvettes, have a glass barrier that extends 2/3 up inside, so that measurements can be taken with two solutions separated, and again when they are mixed. Typically, cuvettes are across, to allow for easy calculations of coefficients of absorption. Cuvettes to be used in circular dichroism〔(Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy ) Applied Photophysics Ltd., 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2013〕 experiments should never be mechanically stressed, as the stress will induce birefringence〔(Weisstein, Eric, W. "Birefringence" ) ''scienceworld.wolfram.com'', Wolfram Research, 1996-2007. Retrieved 15 August 2013〕 in the quartz and affect the measurements made. ==Types of cuvettes== There are several different types of cuvettes commonly used; each type has different usable wavelengths at which its transparency exceeds 80%: * Optical Glass, has an optical wavelength range of 340-2,500nm in which it transmits over 80% along with a matching tolerance of 1% at 350nm. * Plastic, with a wavelength from 380 to 780 nm (visible spectrum). * Fused quartz, with a wavelength below 380 nm (ultraviolet spectrum). * UV quartz has an operational wavelength range of 190-2,500 nm, and a matching tolerance of 1% at 220 nm.〔(Glossary of Common Spectroscopy Terms ) ''fireflysci.com''. Retrieved 10 June 2015〕 * ES quartz has a usable wavelength range of 190 to 2,000 nm, and a matching tolerance of 1% at 220 nm. * IR quartz has a usable wavelength range of 220 to 3,500 nm, and a matching tolerance of 1% at 2,730 nm. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cuvette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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