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Kitchen Spectroscopy: Shining a (UV) Light on Everyday Objects

Fluorescent objects often lead to a sense of joy and intrigue. While the current COVID-19 pandemic limits the synthesis of “glowy things” like quantum dots, many household objects fluoresce, providing an opportunity to brighten your day while learning fundamental chemistry.

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Autores principales: VanOrman, Zachary A., Nienhaus, Lea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32427140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.04.026
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spelling pubmed-72275942020-05-18 Kitchen Spectroscopy: Shining a (UV) Light on Everyday Objects VanOrman, Zachary A. Nienhaus, Lea Matter Article Fluorescent objects often lead to a sense of joy and intrigue. While the current COVID-19 pandemic limits the synthesis of “glowy things” like quantum dots, many household objects fluoresce, providing an opportunity to brighten your day while learning fundamental chemistry. Elsevier Inc. 2020-06-03 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7227594/ /pubmed/32427140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.04.026 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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