Introduction to Ramen and Ramune Spectroscopy: April Fools in the lab!

Raman spectroscopy is a really cool analytical technique using scattered laser light to identify materials, but it's unfortunately cost-prohibitive for hobbyists and smaller labs.
In this video, we demonstrate some alternatives for material identification on a budget.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 The specimens
00:56 Experiment setup
02:15 Orange ramune
05:01 Yuzu ramune
08:25 Lychee and original ramune
13:40 Ramen spectroscopy
15:37 Concluding remarks

[@steubens7]

oooh that reminds me, got a laptop that can actually run scopehal now ... need to check it out

[@LongnoseRob]

Would be good to also compare instant Ramen with fresh Ramen 😂

[@AndrewZonenberg]

Yeah this was a bit of a rush job given the calendar constraints, I had some other projects on this lab bench until Saturday afternoon. So not enough time to run as many samples as I wanted.