Abstract
Spectroscopic techniques employ light to interact with matter and thus probe certain features of a sample to learn about its consistency or structure. Light is electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon exhibiting different energies, and dependent on that energy, different molecular features can be probed. The basic principles of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter are treated in this chapter. There is no obvious logical dividing point to split the applications of electromagnetic radiation into parts treated separately. The justification for the split presented in this text is purely pragmatic and based on “common practice.” The applications considered in this chapter use visible or UV light to probe consistency and conformational structure of biological molecules.
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Absorbance
- SOP:
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Standard operating procedure
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Basha, M. (2020). Colorimetry and Spectrophotometer (Spectrophotometry). In: Analytical Techniques in Biochemistry. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0134-1_4
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