spectroscopy

Definitions

Examples

• About 600 minerals are confirmed to glow in the dark, says Glen Waychunas, a mineralogist who studies fluorescence and spectroscopy at the California Institute of Technology.

• It would use radar and near-infrared spectroscopy to peer below the planet’s thick clouds and observe the geology and topography of its surface.

• It will use spectroscopy to find out what the soil is made of, measure magnetic fields on the ground, and track weather changes like temperature and winds.

• One of the most fruitful fields for this instrument is undoubtedly stellar spectroscopy.

• Oscar Brasch has within the last few years studied spectroscopy in relation to the alkaloids and organic poisons.

• It is to Sir William Huggins, however, that we are indebted for the application of the principle to spectroscopy.

• In the earliest days of spectroscopy the spectra of the stars were classified according to their visual spectra.

• The basis of spectroscopy is the prism, which separates sunlight into seven colors and projects a band of light called a spectrum.