Prisms are commonly used in spectroscopy for dispersing or controlling the direction or polarisation of light. This can be helpful for splitting the incoming light into its wavelength components to ...

SO far, I have spoken of spectroscopes as spectroscopes -as one of the instruments the improvement of which should be cared for by every student in science. Their applications will come after. As may ...

THIS volume contains a fair amount of information useful to those wishing to purchase and set up spectroscopic apparatus for chemical research, but it seems to us to be ill-assorted and indifferently ...