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Also known as spectrum analysis, spectral analysis

thumb|A Prism (optics)|prism separates white light by dispersing it into its component colors, which can then be studied using spectroscopy.

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Spectroscopy is a subject described in the article "Spectroscopy 101 – How Absorption and Emission Spectra Work" on NASA Science. The text of this article contains 30,064 characters. It is categorized under "Spectroscopy" in Commons.

The term appears in 1,082,459 PubMed records. Additionally, spectroscopy is referenced by 2,645 other encyclopedia articles.

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Spectroscopy 101 – How Absorption and Emission Spectra Work - NASA Science

Let’s go back to simple absorption and emission spectra. We can use a star’s absorption spectrum to figure out what elements it is made of based on the colors

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Encyclopedic overview

18 sections
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Theory
  • Classification of methods
  • Type of radiative energy
  • Nature of the interaction
  • Type of material
  • Atoms
  • Molecules
  • Crystals and extended materials
  • Nuclei
  • Other types
  • Applications
  • History
  • Hobbyist
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|A Prism (optics)|prism separates white light by dispersing it into its component colors, which can then be studied using spectroscopy.

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra as it interacts with matter. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from radiated visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “spectroscopy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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