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4. It's more like "let's see what's absorbed and what's emitted",

Mon Dec 10, 2018, 10:16 PM

Dec 2018

then look at what the intensity is by wavelength.

I still look back at the spectroscopy portion of my organic chem lab work with a bit of unease, trying to match up peaks with radicals and bonds, looking at mass data, and trying to figure out just what the hell the TA had put in the vial.

I guess the point is you don't test for a specific thing, you look to see what bits there are in the signal and piece it all together.

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NASA's Newly Arrived OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Already Discovers Water on Asteroid [View all] RandiFan1290 Dec 2018 OP

Very interesting and perhaps not unexpected. Otherwise why test for it? dameatball Dec 2018 #1

It's more like "let's see what's absorbed and what's emitted", Igel Dec 2018 #4

Yes, that was what I was going to say....:)) Not. Good post. dameatball Dec 2018 #7

Thanks for that. Ghost Dog Dec 2018 #11

hmmmm.... AZ8theist Dec 2018 #2

Somebody seriously made that claim? n/t Igel Dec 2018 #5

Here is one they might like RandiFan1290 Dec 2018 #6

Culligan is gonna need faster trucks to make that work. xor Dec 2018 #10

OSIRIS-REx? Late Knight Dec 2018 #3

Very interesting. Thanks for the post. iluvtennis Dec 2018 #8

You are welcome RandiFan1290 Dec 2018 #9