Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of spectra, especially experimental observation of optical spectra or mass spectra, to determine the properties of their source.
- noun A variety or instance of such study.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of science, more particularly of chemical and physical science, which is concerned with the use of the spectroscope and with spectrum analysis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the art and science dealing with the use of a spectroscope, and the production and analysis of spectra; the action of using a spectroscope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
scientific study ofspectra . - noun analytical chemistry, countable The use of
spectrometers inchemical analysis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her skills in spectroscopy have allowed her to assemble a large library of synthetic spectra that has aided many other researchers in their investigations of our own and other galaxies.
Trieste Science Prize Winner: Beatriz Barbuy Peggy 2008
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Her skills in spectroscopy have allowed her to assemble a large library of synthetic spectra that has aided many other researchers in their investigations of our own and other galaxies.
Archive 2008-10-01 Peggy 2008
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A chance encounter in 1971 set off a chain of experiments that would move NMR spectroscopy from a tool chemists use to solve structures to one that doctors could use to create detailed images of internal organs.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 - Perspectives 2003
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NMR spectroscopy is used mainly to detect hydrogen atoms in a molecule, and because cells contain a high proportion of water Damadian was investigating whether the technique could detect tumours, by virtue of the fact that the water content in tumour cells is different from normal cells.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 - Perspectives 2003
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Using a metaphor, magnetic resonance spectroscopy is like listening to a radio broadcast of a symphony in the 1940s.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 - Presentation Speech 2003
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His photo - and Auger-electron spectroscopy is used as an analytical tool in several other areas of physics and chemistry.
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Remember first that spectroscopy is very much concerned with the detection of signals from a sample containing some compound.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991 - Presentation Speech 1997
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NMR spectroscopy is also used for studying how carbocations rearrange to other cations.
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NMR spectroscopy is today used within practically all branches of chemistry, at universities as well as industrial laboratories.
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During my last years at Varian (1966-68), we developed numerous computer applications in spectroscopy for automated experiments and improved data processing.
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