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"Analyzing the spectrum of an object can tell us about its physical properties."
"We'll kick it up a notch since we got the rainbow, so spectroscopy is the study of rainbows."
"Nasa's using two kinds of radar and a spectrometer. These measure more colors than the human eye can distinguish."
"Based on this IR spectrum, we can say that B is the answer."
"The next step in directly imaging exoplanets is characterizing their spectra and extracting traces for formation pathways."
"Spectroscopy allows us to understand what's really going on."
"Spectroscopy and the invention of the spectroscope introduced the concept of astrophysics to astronomy."
"To separate scatter and multiple fluorescence wavelengths simultaneously from each cell, design of a multi-channel layout must consider spectral properties of the fluorochromes used and appropriate positioning of filters."
"Spectroscopy is when you split up light into its constituent colors or wavelengths."
"NMR spectra are compared to a standard like TMS."
"Interpreting NMR spectra requires understanding carbon environments."
"Bohr discovered the long-sought key to the entrance gate into the wonderland of spectroscopy. And now that the way was opened, a sudden flood of newfound knowledge poured over the whole field, including the neighboring fields in physics and chemistry."
"Spectroscopy is objectively cool as [ __ ]."
"Infrared spectroscopy uses infrared radiation to increase the vibrational energy of covalent bonds in a sample."
"The James Webb Space Telescope will provide detailed spectroscopic analysis of the atmospheres of thousands of known exoplanets for the first time."
"Each element has a unique line spectrum."
"Without spectroscopy, we would just be explorers staring at a beautiful landscape."
"The spectrum shows a number of populations of molecules with each peak being the accumulated signal of hundreds to thousands of molecules of exactly the same thing."
"Aim for gates that give us the best spectrum, the best spectrum being the brightest spectrum, the cleanest spectrum, and one that has only a single signature."
"With SGL, you can actually do a surface correlated spectroscopy that means if there is a swamp on the planet, we know that there is a swamp because methane is being emitted from that part."
"The JWST will provide detailed spectroscopic analysis of the atmospheres of thousands of known exoplanets."
"Each atom has its own characteristic atomic spectrum."
"In the world of spectroscopy, every peak, every shift, every split tells a tale of atomic interactions."
"NMR is a spectroscopic technique with a wide range of applications from medicine to biochemistry."
"Using both mass spectrometry and infrared helps us to identify our unknown compound."
"NMR is used to help determine the structure of a molecule."
"IR spectroscopy can talk to you about what's going around in your molecule."
"IR has changed a lot; back in the days where NMR barely existed, in the 1950s and 60s, and even into the 70s, the Journal of Organic Chemistry wanted people to report everything."
"The only thing that has a signal between 6.5 and 8 is a benzene ring."
"As you do more and more of these practice problems, it'll become more and more straightforward interpreting these spectra."
"Webb is just producing these beautiful spectra of exoplanet atmospheres."
"Spectroscopy is when you separate the light from a burning object into its different colors with a prism or diffraction grating to determine its chemical composition."
"Burning gases make distinct bands of light, an optical fingerprint so to speak, where each element produced its own distinct bands."
"May not the spectroscope afford us evidence of the existence of the red flames which total eclipses have revealed to us in the sun's atmosphere?"
"Lockyer is triumphant; he found red flames with a new spectroscope."
"Judge my surprise and delight when upon sweeping along the spectrum, I found hundreds of the Fraunhofer lines beautifully bright at the base of the prominence."
"A line in the yellow of the spectrum will also be noticed. This is one which has caused a great deal of discussion, for is not coincident with any known terrestrial substance."
"The Raman spectra themselves... really do act as fingerprints of what you've hit."
"A picture's worth a thousand words, and one spectrum is worth a thousand pictures."
"The spectra are telling us about the energy level differences."
"Spectroscopy acts as a translator so that we can interpret the defects in a language that we can understand."
"Spectroscopy... to act as a storyteller for the diamonds."
"Spectroscopy just means the science of how matter interacts with electromagnetic radiation."
"We use UV visible spectroscopy every day in the lab to identify these copper bearing tourmaline."
"The electrons which fall to ground state produce a series of lines in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum."
"This time I'm going to be showing you a tutorial on how we can use infrared spectrum, proton NMR spectrum, and mass spectrum to determine the structure of an unknown organic compound."
"I've also got this really major peak just here which on my data sheet is given the range 1,630 to 1,820, and it's my C double bond O."
"Mclafferty rearrangement is one of the important rearrangements in mass spectroscopy which can be used to detect the functional groups in unknown compounds."
"It's based on infrared spectroscopy."
"The peak absorbance for 40 nm gold in water is about 526."
"Astronomers use spectroscopy to determine four properties of stars: its composition, its temperature, density, and relative motion."
"If you know the wavelengths that are absorbed by various chemicals, you can determine the chemical composition of a star by simply analyzing its absorption spectrum."
"We can detect this subtle blue shift and red shift in the star's emitted light."
"This experiment has enabled us to do spectroscopy a million times faster than was possible before."
"The light from each star passing through a diffraction grating shows the absorption line spectrum."
"Hydroxyl groups, carboxylic acids, there is an unmistakable dominant peak between 3000 and 4000 wave numbers."
"A spectroscope... will spread out the light into its different wavelengths or spectra."
"By spreading out the wavelengths, we can examine which wavelengths are transmitted and which are emitted."
"These unique lines represent the wavelength of the emitted light coming off."
"This will help us to interpret NMR spectra."
"The symmetry allows us to determine the movement and vibrations of bonds, including the number of vibrations."
"With the applications of symmetry, we should be able to distinguish between IR and Raman active bands."
"These spectral lines become a valuable tool that we can use to learn about the electronic structure of the atom."
"Spectroscopy gives us valuable insights into our chemical nature and the composition of different sample types."
"The first principal component is going to be the wavelengths that are the highest contributor to the variation in your data."
"There are ways that you might spectroscopically analyze the chemistry of another planet and at least make a reasonable guess as to whether there's life and what type of life might be there."
"...with an image of a planet where you could actually lay down a slit on top of that planet and get its emergent spectrum, that's what you really want to do."
"In transient absorption, we get both spectral information but also kinetic information."
"This spectra right here was worth a Nobel Prize."
"In 1972, two grad students at MIT invented Proton Enhanced Nuclear Induction Spectroscopy."
"This monochromatic property of laser is something which spectroscopist really love."
"We'll use infrared spectroscopy to understand what the chemical signature of the surface is like, where are there organic materials, where are there salts, what kind of salts, what kind of organic and other material."
"The density functional perturbation theory is a linear response method you can use to calculate and predict the IR spectrum, Raman spectrum, and others."
"You can use point group symmetries to understand spectroscopy of chemical species."
"I'm a spectroscopist and I use spectroscopy to learn all sorts of secrets that molecules keep."
"Each line on an absorption or emission spectrum is associated with two specific energy levels of the electron, and only those two."
"We can get an incredible amount of information about bond distances, bond strengths, bond angles using these sorts of spectra."
"You can use Raman spectroscopy in a fashion that's complementary to x-ray diffraction to differentiate crystal forms."
"Raman spectroscopy is useful for differentiating polymorphs and characterizing polymers."
"Raman spectroscopy is particularly useful for studying solid state materials because of the ease of sampling."
"Simply by watching shifts in the spectra on individual particle pairs you can tell what kinds of motions the biomolecules are undergoing."
"The goal is to assign the chemical shift of each peak in the spectrum to the respective amino acid in the peptide."
"In the UV-visible spectroscopy, we mainly observe the electronic transitions."
"Different elements have different unique colors given off when they are excited and return to the ground state."
"Spectroscopy is probably the most useful single tool in the astronomer's toolkit."
"What happens in atomic emission spectroscopy is that atoms are in the electronically excited state and they relax down to the ground state, giving off a photon."