The principal tool in the Atmospheric Physics Lab is a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. Because the OH stretch (which is an IR active transition) in the water molecule is particularly ...

For decades, the ability to visualize the chemical composition of materials, whether for diagnosing a disease, assessing food ...

A mass spectrometer is a complicated and expensive piece of equipment -- so complicated and so expensive, in fact, that most undergraduate chemistry students never get a chance to use one. Now ...

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters Anyin Li of Georgia Tech ...

As occurs all too often in scientific analysis, if you want to investigatemore than one aspect of a sample, then you almost always need a different tool for each examination required. How convenient ...

November 17, 2013. Saelig is now offering the GL SPECTIS 5.0 Touch, a portable instrument for obtaining light measurement data ranging from NIR to UV with laboratory accuracy. Each GL SPECTIS 5.0 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "SCiO Molecular Sensor from Consumer Physics: Mobile Spectrometer Dongle: Complete Teardown Analysis" report to their ...

Learn how to determine the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) in a mass spectrometer! This guide walks you through the physics behind the process, from ion acceleration to detection, with practical insights ...

An international team of researchers has developed a mid-infrared spectrometer smaller than the diameter of a human hair. With potential applications that range from detecting greenhouse gases to ...

Some instruments in teaching laboratories may look old-fashioned, but those wooden boxes can hold surprisingly advanced equipment. George Herold describes his career designing experiments for ...