Smartphones application in alkali metal flame tests

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine alkali metal content by means of flame using smartphone application with experiment. Method stages are performed by making a standard solution and test solution first. Standard solution for determining density line equations to vector norm value. While the test solution is to determine the known concentration of NaCl from the line equations. The standard solutions of each RGB value is tested to get an equation with the value R2 must be close to or equal to 1. The analysis shows that the use values of RGB obtained from a captured image of the video is the color intensity resulting from the flame sodium metal. Level of the standard solution 1 shows result that is quite accurate with test solution levels of 0.0313 g/mL. Likewise with standard solution 2, the result is 0.0063 g/mL and standard solution 3 is 0.00032 g/mL. The value of R2 of the standard solutions must have a value close to or equal to 1. This is because the value of R2 affects the concentration results obtained. If R2 has a value that is very close to 1, an accurate result will be obtained.