The Science behind Spectral Analysis

Next: What is "Atomic absorption spectroscopy"? Atomic absorption spectrometry has many uses in different areas of chemistry such as:

Clinical analysis: Analyzing metals in biological fluids and tissues such as whole blood, plasma, urine, saliva, brain tissue, liver, muscle tissue, semen

Pharmaceuticals: In some pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, minute quantities of a catalyst that remain in the final drug product

Water analysis: Analyzing water for its metal content.

Spectroscopy is often used in physical and analytical chemistry for the identification of substances.
A device for recording a spectrum is a spectrometer. Spectrometry can be classified according to the physical quantity which is measured or calculated.

Spectroscopy is also heavily used in astronomy. Most large telescopes have spectrographs, which are used to measure the chemical composition and physical properties of astronomical objects.

A recorded spectrum of a person:

The intensity of emitted electromagnetic waves and the amount of absorbed electromagnetic waves are studied by electromagnetic spectroscopy.

Kinetic energy of particles is studied by electron energy loss spectroscopy.

The mass-to-charge ratios of molecules and atoms are studied in mass spectrometry, sometimes called mass spectroscopy. Mass spectrometry is a measuring technique and can produce a spectrum of masses, a mass spectrum, similar in appearance to other spectroscopy techniques.

Spectrograph

The Spectrograph is a powerful tool to determine the most important information of the Body.