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What is a spectrophotometer?
Posted May 6, 2024
AbsorbanceFluorescencespectrophotometer
Answer
A spectrophotometer measures the quantity of photons (light intensity) absorbed as it moves through a sample. By detecting the light intensity, this instrument can determine the concentration of a known chemical substance in the sample.
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