spectrometer: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	scanning spectrometer • scanner

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Balmer series of hydrogen

Figure 1: Spectrometer utilizing Mössbauer effect concept Effect is usually observed by measuring transmission of gamma rays from radioactive source through absorber containing resonant isotope.

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Topics

spectrograph Bragg ionization spectrometer Mössbauer effect Doppler-velocity spectrometer spectrophotometer interferometer Stark-modulated spectrometer laser absorption spectrometer Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer collimator monochromator spectrochemical analysis spectrophotometry

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Bertram N. Brockhouse

Canadian physicist