enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Photodissociation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodissociation

    Photodissociation, photolysis, photodecomposition, or photofragmentation is a chemical reaction in which molecules of a chemical compound are broken down by absorption of light or photons. It is defined as the interaction of one or more photons with one target molecule that dissociates into two fragments. [1]

  3. Absorption band - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_band

    In spectroscopy, an absorption band is a range of wavelengths, frequencies or energies in the electromagnetic spectrum that are characteristic of a particular transition from initial to final state in a substance. According to quantum mechanics, atoms and molecules can only hold certain defined quantities of energy, or exist in specific states. [1]

  4. Electromagnetic absorption by water - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_absorption...

    The absorption band at 698 nm (14300 cm −1) is a 3rd overtone (n=4). It tails off onto the visible region and is responsible for the intrinsic blue color of water. This can be observed with a standard UV/vis spectrophotometer, using a 10 cm path-length.

  5. Ozone layer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_layer

    Although the concentration of the ozone in the ozone layer is very small, it is vitally important to life because it absorbs biologically harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation coming from the Sun. Extremely short or vacuum UV (10–100 nm) is screened out by nitrogen. UV radiation capable of penetrating nitrogen is divided into three categories ...

  6. Ultraviolet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet

    The nitrogen gas laser uses electronic excitation of nitrogen molecules to emit a beam that is mostly UV. The strongest ultraviolet lines are at 337.1 nm and 357.6 nm in wavelength. The strongest ultraviolet lines are at 337.1 nm and 357.6 nm in wavelength.

  7. Ozone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone

    Ozone in the ozone layer filters out sunlight wavelengths from about 200 nm UV rays to 315 nm, with ozone peak absorption at about 250 nm. [54] This ozone UV absorption is important to life, since it extends the absorption of UV by ordinary oxygen and nitrogen in air (which absorb all wavelengths < 200 nm) through the lower UV-C (200–280 nm ...

  8. Crystallographic defects in diamond - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_defects...

    Absorption at those peaks is routinely used to measure the concentration of single nitrogen. [20] Another proposed way, using the UV absorption at ~260 nm, has later been discarded as unreliable. [19] Acceptor defects in diamond ionize the fifth nitrogen electron in the C center converting it into C+ center.

  9. Photochemistry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochemistry

    Photochemical immersion well reactor (50 mL) with a mercury-vapor lamp.. Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light. Generally, this term is used to describe a chemical reaction caused by absorption of ultraviolet (wavelength from 100 to 400 nm), visible (400–750 nm), or infrared radiation (750–2500 nm).