What is UV-Vis Spectroscopy? UV-Vis spectroscopy, short for ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, is an analytical technique that measures the absorption or reflectance of light by a sample in the ...

How can we measure visible light? The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. (1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio ...

Leading into World War II, American scientists scrambled for a way to determine what vitamins, particularly vitamin A, were in food in order to keep US soldiers well-nourished. But state-of-the-art ...

A method for measuring light absorption throughout the ultraviolet and visible regions of the electromagnetic spectrum is known as ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectrophotometry. Incident light can ...

What’s the story behind DNA melting temperature analysis? UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy can be used to assess the characteristics of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a naturally occurring polymer ...

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How does UV-Vis spectrophotometry help with the understanding of failed reactions? Genomic analyses, such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), require ...

NanoDrop™ Microvolume UV-Vis Spectrophotometers from Thermo Scientific™ are robust, useful analytical tools, ideal for measuring absorbance when working with small sample volumes. Thermo Scientific ...

The US Department of Agriculture estimates that sugar beets account for over half of domestic sugar production. Sugar beets, produced all over the northern Great Plains, must be treated to extract and ...