LevelBasic
This section covers the theory and calculations behind the measurement of chemical concentrations with light. This touches on the atomic and molecular interactions with light as well as the physical considerations for the instruments to measure these interactions.
This section is supported by chapter 10 A, B, D-G in the e-book Analytical Chemistry 2.0. You can download chapter 10 here.
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Basics about light, absorbance, and emission.
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The fundamentals of molecular absorbance, Beer’s law, absorbance spectrometer design.
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The fundamentals of fluorescence and phosphorescence.
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Explanation of atomic absorbance spectroscopy and instrument considerations.
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Explanation of atomic emission spectroscopy and instrument considerations.
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