My UV equipment is out of order so I need another method (physical or chemical) to analyze Gentian violet (quantitatively and/or qualitatively). If anyone has some suggestions and/or references, they would be greatly welcomed.
I also recommend RAMAN - you should find such a spectrometer in almost any university. Manufacturers: Perkin Elmer, Kaiser Optics etc. There is also quite a bit of literature about Crystal violet RAMAN measurements e.g.