spectrometer
An optical instrument for measuring the absorption of light by chemical substances; typically it will plot a graph of absorption versus wavelength or frequency, and the patterns produced are used to identify the substances present, and their internal structure.
Related words
- fluorospectrometer
- hyperspectrometer
- microspectrometer
- minispectrometer
- photospectrometer
- radiospectrometer
- mass spectrometer
- X-ray spectrometer
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