Definition of Absorption spectrum

1. Noun. The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that has passed through a medium that absorbed radiation of certain wavelengths.

Generic synonyms: Spectrum

Definition of Absorption spectrum

1. Noun. (context: physics) The characteristic pattern of dark lines or bands that occurs when electromagnetic radiation is passed through an absorbing medium into a spectroscope. ¹

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Medical Definition of Absorption spectrum

1. A graph of the amount of light a substance absorbs, plotted as a fuction of energy, frequency or wavelength. (15 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Absorption Spectrum

absorption factors
absorption hygrometer
absorption hygrometers
absorption indicator
absorption line
absorption lines
absorption nebula
absorption nebulae
absorption nebulas
absorption of radiation
absorption pipette
absorption pipettes
absorption spectra
absorption spectroscopy
absorption spectrum (current term)
absorption system
absorption systems
absorption unit
absorptional
absorptions
absorptive
absorptive cells of intestine
absorptively
absorptiveness
absorptivities
absorptivity
absotively
absotively posilutely
absotively posolutely

Literary usage of Absorption spectrum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"the absorption spectrum as well as the lack of a significant pH effect suggest that these bands are related to the Bu and Blu benzene transitions. ..."

2. Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of by Henry Enfield Roscoe (1869)
"... have the same effect on the rays of light : thus the chromium salts (both green and purple) exhibit the same form of absorption spectrum (Fig. 39). Fig. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"On the absorption spectrum of Oxygen.1 By Professors LIVEING, FRS, and DEWAR, ... The authors describe the absorption spectrum given by oxygen at various ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"On the Structure of Gold Leaf and the absorption spectrum of Gold. ... The results are given of an examination of the absorption spectrum —in the visible, ..."

5. A Study of the Absorption Spectra of Solutions of Certain Salts of Potassium by Harry Clary Jones, William Walker Strong (1910)
"The absorption spectrum of the anhydrous chloride was photographed in the same ... With a depth of solution of 3 mm. its absorption spectrum (Plate 62, A, ..."

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