spectrophotometry: Quick Facts

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Stretching and bending vibrations in organic compounds such as 5-hexene-2-one represent different energy levels within a molecule that can be detected by using infrared spectrophotometry.

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Lambert’s law infrared spectrophotometry ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry spectrophotometer Beer’s law spectroscopy spectrochemical analysis spectrometer

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Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert

Belgian astronomer