spectrophotometry
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14 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Design
- Types of spectrophotometers
- Applications in biochemistry
- UV-visible spectrophotometry
- Applications
- Experimental application
- IR spectrophotometry
- Spectroradiometers
- Spectrophotometry in Print
- See also
- References
- External links
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Spectrophotometry is a branch of electromagnetic spectroscopy concerned with the quantitative measurement of the reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength. Spectrophotometry uses photometers, known as spectrophotometers, that can measure the intensity of a light beam at different wavelengths. Although spectrophotometry is most commonly applied to ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation, modern spectrophotometers can interrogate wide swaths of the electromagnetic spectrum, including x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, or microwave wavelengths.