Grotthuss–Draper law

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photochemical reaction research

  • chain of fluorescent tunicates
    In photochemical reaction: History

    …of absorbing optical radiation (the Grotthus-Draper law). German chemist Robert Bunsen and English chemist Henry Roscoe demonstrated in 1859 that the amount of fluorescence or phosphorescence was determined by the total amount of optical radiation absorbed and not the energy content (i.e., the wavelength, colour, or frequency) of the radiation.…

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photochemistry

  • energy states in molecular systems
    In radiation: Photochemistry

    The first, the Grotthuss–Draper law (named for the chemists Christian J.D.T. von Grotthuss and John W. Draper), is simply: for light to produce an effect upon matter it must be absorbed. The second, or Stark–Einstein law (for the physicists Johannes Stark and Albert Einstein), in its most modern…

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