Sentence examples for spectrophotometer from inspiring English sources
The word “spectrophotometer” is correct and usable in written English
You would use it when referring to a device used in laboratories to measure the intensity of a light beam. For example, “The scientist used a spectrophotometer to measure the light’s intensity.”
noun
An instrument used to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths.
The spectrophotometer has largely replaced the colorimeter.
If monochromatic light or a narrow band of radiation is used, the instrument is called a spectrophotometer.
If A and B have different optical properties for example, if they differ in colour or in the absorption of ultraviolet light this property can be used to measure the ratio [A]/[B], commonly by using an instrument called a spectrophotometer.
An infrared spectrophotometer is an instrument that passes infrared light through an organic molecule and produces a spectrum that contains a plot of the amount of light transmitted on the vertical axis against the wavelength of infrared radiation on the horizontal axis.
In 1859, a British physicist named John Tyndall, experimenting with a machine he had built — the world's first ratio spectrophotometer — set out to study the heat-trapping properties of various gases.
A spectrophotometer is typically used to "read" each color and assign it the proper notations in six indexing systems, such as Archroma (which works best with fabric dyes) or RAL (which is used for paint).
For this purpose many chemical methods involving specific colour reactions have been developed, requiring spectrum-analyzing instruments (spectrophotometers) for quantitative measurement.
Because cesium is strongly photoelectric (easily loses electrons when struck by light), it is used in photoelectric cells, photomultiplier tubes, scintillation counters, and spectrophotometers.
In a laboratory crowded with centrifuges, chemical hoods, and spectrophotometers, they and their team spend hours double-checking sensitive chemical assays for hormones produced by the hypothalamus and the testes, as well as the pituitary and adrenal glands.
We are here to study this system with modern tools and techniques, like underwater spectrophotometers, narrow excitation bandwidth fluorescence imaging, military-grade low-light custom-built underwater cameras and a RED Epic 5K movie camera capable of obtaining imagery almost 10 times the resolution of high definition.
Among the tools commonly found in hacker spaces are laser cutters, 3-D printers, miter saws and other woodworking tools, esoteric electronics like spectrophotometers and the tiny single-chip computers known as microcontrollers.
