Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of using the spectrophotometer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of two spectra, wave length by wave length; the use of the spectrophotometer.
- noun (Chem., Physics) the art or process of measuring the degree of absorption of light at different wavelengths by a chemical substance, by means of a spectrometer or spectrophotometer. It is a technique for chemical analysis.
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- noun physics, analytical chemistry the
quantitative analysis ofelectromagnetic spectra by use of aspectrophotometer ; especially in order to determine thestructure orquantity of asubstance
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IATL ran the samples through a number of tests including polarized light microscopy, analytical transmission electron microscopy and atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
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My understanding is that the spacing of the hues has perceptual intervals, but hues themselves are wavelengths, of course, and determined by spectrophotometry.
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Gaia will be, in my opinion, the greatest of all, observing stars down to 12th magnitude, and doing astrometry, radial velocity and spectrophotometry – all made to a higher precision.
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In a nutshell I study the enzymology and assembly of the dysfunctional respiratory complexes from patient biopsy samples, using a combination of steady-state kinetics, UV/vis-spectrophotometry, Western blot analysis, molecular modelling and FTIR spectroscopy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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For the study, published this week in the scientific journal Biology Letters, the researchers radio-tracked a large number of juvenile and adult pythons and analysed their colours using advanced spectrophotometry.
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And no more CO2 spectroscopy / spectrophotometry / quantum mech either!
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In emission spectrophotometry both UV/Vis and X-ray, one counts photons.
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A sample of the processed water was collected (50 cc) in a plastic vessel and another sample was taken for spectrophotometry in its plastic cuvette.
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There is a real communication link which we have measured by spectrophotometry. pH and Conductivity Measurements
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This system, once achieved, may be detected by means of melting point determination under cross field polarized light and spectrophotometry, ultraviolet, visible and infrared.
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