spectroscopy

IPA: spɛktrˈɑskʌpi

(uncountable) The scientific study of spectra.
(analytical chemistry, countable) The use of spectrometers in chemical analysis.

Examples of "spectroscopy" in Sentences

NMR spectroscopy is also used for studying how carbocations rearrange to other cations.
Using a metaphor, magnetic resonance spectroscopy is like listening to a radio broadcast of a symphony in the 1940s.
His photo - and Auger-electron spectroscopy is used as an analytical tool in several other areas of physics and chemistry.
Remember first that spectroscopy is very much concerned with the detection of signals from a sample containing some compound.
NMR spectroscopy is today used within practically all branches of chemistry, at universities as well as industrial laboratories.
During my last years at Varian (1966-68), we developed numerous computer applications in spectroscopy for automated experiments and improved data processing.
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.
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.
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.