Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Photon:
The basic unit of electromagnetic radiation.
This laser emits a stream of light photons with the same wavelength, and therefore of the same energy.
Related terms:
Infrared spectroscopy
,
NMR spectroscopy
,
x-ray crystallography
,
photochemistry
,
photolysis
,
hν
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