Extinctivity

The condition of the magnetic particle suspension is controlled by an automated ASTM-bulb. The bulb is connected to the currently used Magentic particle suspension tank by a bypass, so the suspension in use is flowing through the bulb too. In user defined periods a valve is closed and the Magentic particle suspension remained into the bulb is analysed. The automatic bulb has the ability to measure the extinction and transmission of the suspension related to the time (Figure 1, Figure 2)... 

Figure 2 Fluorescence and Extinction of a MP Suspension as a Function of Time...

In ellipsometry monochromatic light such as from a He-Ne laser, is passed through a polarizer, rotated by passing through a compensator before it impinges on the interface to be studied [142]. The reflected beam will be elliptically polarized and is measured by a polarization analyzer. In null ellipsometry, the polarizer, compensator, and analyzer are rotated to produce maximum extinction. The phase shift between the parallel and perpendicular components A and the ratio of the amplitudes of these components, tan are related to the polarizer and analyzer angles p and a, respectively. The changes in A and when a film is present can be related in an implicit form to the complex index of refraction and thickness of the film. 

A newer and perhaps more useful application of ellipsometry to Langmuir films is their lateral characterization via ellipsometric microscopy [146], A simple modification of the nuU ellipsometer allows one to image features down to 10-/im resolution. Working with a fixed polarizer and analyzer, some domains are at extinction while others are not and appear bright. This approach requires no fluorescent label and can be applied to systems on reflective supports. 

The quantity e is called the absorption coefficient or extinction coefficient, more completely the molar decadic absorption coefficient it is a characteristic of the substance and the wavelength and to a lesser extent the solvent and temperature. It is coimnon to take path length in centimetres and concentration in moles per... 

Another usefiil quantity related to extinction coefficient is the cross section, a, defined for a single atom or molecule. It may be thought of as the effective area blocking the beam at a given wavelength, and the value... 

We will quote a numerical constant in some of these equations to help with actual calculations. The units can be very confusing because it is conventional to use non-SI units for several quantities. The wavenumber value, i>, is usually taken to be in cm The extinction coefficient is conveniently taken in units of 1 moH ... 

Another interesting physical feature relates to the cliromophoric character of fullerenes. Based on the symmetry prohibitions, solutions of [60]fullerene absorb predominantly in the UV region, with distinct maxima at 220, 260 and 330 nm. In contrast to extinction coefficients on the order of 10 cm at these wavelengths, the visible region shows only relatively weak transitions (X at 536 nm s =710 cm ) [142]. 

CD is a small effect. Ae/e, tire ratio of tire difference in circularly polarized extinction coefficients, Ae = Aj - Ej, to total absorjrtion, s = + Ej ), is typically only about 10 - 10 . Being so small, tire measurement of CD witli... 

The intensity of a spectral absorption band at a given wave length is expressed in terms of absorption or extinction coefficients, dehned on the basis of the Beer-Lambert law. The latter states that the fraction of incident light absorbed is proportional to the number of molecules in the light path, i.e., to the concentration (c) and the path length (1). The law may be expressed mathematically as ... 

The absolute intensity of an absorption band may be expressed by giving the value of em x., the molecular extinction coefficient at the wave... 

The electronic transitions which produce spectra in the visible and ultraviolet are accompanied by vibrational and rotational transitions. In the condensed state, however, rotation is hindered by solvent molecules, and stray electrical fields affect the vibrational frequencies. For these reasons, electronic bands are very broad. An electronic band is characterised by the wave length and moleculai extinction coefficient at the position of maximum intensity (Xma,. and emai.). 

The former exhibits absorption tjrpical of an isolated keto group, whereas the latter shows a high intensity -band associated with the conjugated system HO—C=C—C=0. The proportions of the two forms under various conditions are readily determined from the ultraviolet spectra. The ultraviolet spectra in various solvents are shown in Fig. A, 7, 2. Since the absorption of the keto form is negligible, the percentage of enol present is 100(em/e ), where e is the observed extinction at 245 mp. and that of the pure enol. It was shown that in alcoholic solution is 1900 and the percentage of enol is 12. Thus e is ca. 16000, and use of this value permits the approximate evaluation of the enol content in different solvents. The results are collected in Table XII. 

Quantitative analysis. Spectroscopic analysis is widely used in the analysis of vitamin preparations, mixtures of hydrocarbons (e.y., benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes) and other systems exhibiting characteristic electronic spectra. The extinction coefficient at 326 mp, after suitable treatment to remove other materials absorbing in this region, provides the best method for the estimation of the vitamin A content of fish oils. 

Measurements were performed employing a Perkin Elmer X2, 5 or 12 UV-Vis spectrophotometer at 25 O.r- C. Equilibrium constants were determined by measuring the extinction coefficient at a suitable wavelength of the partially complexed dienophile (y,.hs) as a function of the concentration of... 

Likewise, quantum mechanical calculation succeeds in giving a theoretical explanation of some facts that the resonance theory could not explain, for example, why bis(pyridine-2)monomethine cyanine and bis(pyridine-4)monomethine cyanine possess the same lowest energy transition contrary to the 2,2 - and 2,4 -quinoline monomethine dyes, together with a molecular coefficient extinction lower than that of the 4,4 -quinoline dye (11). Calculation shows also that there is no theoretical reason for observing a relationship between and pK in a large series of dyes with different nuclei as it has been postulated, even if limited observations and calculations in short homogeneous series could lead to this conclusion (105). 

The ultraviolet absorption spectrum of thiazole was first determined in 1955 in ethanolic solution by Leandri et al. (172), then in 1957 by Sheinker et al. (173), and in 1967 by Coltbourne et al. (174). Albert in 1957 gave the spectrum in aqueous solution at pH 5 and in acidic solution (NHCl) (175). Nonhydroxylic solvents were employed (176, 177), and the vapor-phase spectrum was also determined (123). The results summarized in Table 1-15 are homogeneous except for the first data of Leandri (172). Both bands A and B have a red shift of about 3 nm when thiazole is dissolved in hydrocarbon solvents. This red shift of band A increases when the solvent is hydroxylic and, in the case of water, especially when the solution becomes acidic and the extinction coefficient increases simultaneously. 

The vibration frequencies of C-H bond are noticeably higher for gaseous thiazole than for its dilute solutions in carbon tetrachloride or tor liquid samples (Table 1-27). The molar extinction coefficient and especially the integrated intensity of the same peaks decrease dramatically with dilution (203). Inversely, the y(C(2jH) and y(C(5(H) frequencies are lower for gaseous thiazole than for its solutions, and still lower than for liquid samples (cf. Table 1-27). 

The possibility that an even larger impact caused the P T extinction received support when Becker and Poreda found that helium and argon atoms were present in the inner cores of some of the fullerenes from the P T boundary sediments (The cover of this book shows a helium atom inside a mol ecule of Ceo) What is special about the fullerene trapped atoms is that the mixtures of both helium and argon isotopes resemble extraterrestrial isotopic mixtures more than earthly ones The He/ He ratio in the P T boundary fullerenes for example is 50 times larger than the natural abundance ratio... 

Molar absorptivity used to be called the molar extinction coefficient... 

This birefringence coupled with spherical geometry produces light extinction along the axis of each of the Polaroid filters, hence the 90° angle of the Maltese cross. 

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