Instrument: UV Spectrophotometer-Shimadzu

Instrument Short Name: UV Spectrophotometer-Shimadzu
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB20/)
Instrument Description:

The Shimadzu UV Spectrophotometer is manufactured by Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (ssi.shimadzu.com). Shimadzu manufacturers several models of spectrophotometer; refer to dataset for make/model information.

PI supplied instrument name: Shimadzu UV-1601 spectrophotometer
Dataset-specific description

A Shimadzu UV-1601 spectrophotometer was used to measure the absorbance of silica standards and samples. A set of seven standards were run with each set of samples and the resulting standard curve was used to quantify the concentration of biogenic silica.