what is the basic difference between calorimeter and a spectrophotometer?

Answer 1

Calorimeter is a device for calormetry, the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes in the body. A Spectrophotometer just measures the electromagentic spectra, meaning the body temperature.

Answer 2

A calorimeter is a device used for calorimetry, the science of measuring the heat of chemical reactions or physical changes as well as heat capacity. The word calorimeter is derived from the Latin word calor, meaning heat. Differential Scanning Calorimeters, Isothermal Microcalorimeters, Titration Calorimeters and Accelerated Rate Calorimeters are among the most uncommon types.

A spectrophotometer is a photometer (a device for measuring light intensity) that can measure intensity as a function of the color, or more specifically, the wavelength of light. There are many kinds of spectrophotometers. Among the most important distinctions used to classify them are the wavelengths they work with, the measurement techniques they use, how they acquire a spectrum, and the sources of intensity variation they are designed to measure. Other important features of spectrophotometers include the spectral bandwidth and linear range.

Perhaps the most common application of spectrophotometers is the measurement of light absorption, but they can be designed to measure diffuse or specular reflectance. Strictly, even the emission half of a luminescence instrument is a kind of spectrophotometer.

Answer 3

Spectrophotometer: A photometer which measures the intensity of radiation as a function of the frequency (or wavelength) of the radiation.

Calorimeter: An instrument designed to measure quantities of heat; sometimes used in meteorology to measure solar radiation

A spectrophotometer is used to measures the amount of Creatine Kinase that is in a sample. It uses a light and a prism to bounce light off the sample. Depending on what colors of the spectrum are reflected and absorbed it can tell how much Creatine Kinase is a sample and relays that information to you.

Calorimeter is an instrument used in physics to measure various thermal properties, such as heat capacity or the heat produced by fuel.

Answer 4

Calorimeter is to measure the heat value of a substance capable of supplying heat enery.
Spectrophotometer is used to find out the composition of individual elements in a sample by analysing the emmission / absorption spectra of each component.
The two instruments are used entirely for different purposes, so, i suppose you should clarify your question.

Answer 5

You wanted to know the difference between COLORIMETER (not calorimeter) and spectrometer.
Colorimeter measures the intensity of a single color. Spectrometer analyses and seperates various colors coming from a source. Colorimeter says how red or green etc is the color. Spectrometer permits you to see all colors from white light, or some other light.

Answer 6

calorimeter is a instrument used to measure specific heat where as spectro photo meter is used to study the spctrum of a certain light.