Importance Of Spectroscopy

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Spectroscopy is the analogy between radiated energy, a source of matter and helps with the study of colours. Spectroscopy allows us to see how atoms emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation. Typically these measures are known to be a spectroscope. It allows us to measure how light is emitted, scattered or absorbed by a source of material. In addition the importance of spectroscopy is that it allows us to identify study and quantify a source of material. The different colour spectrum for light includes gamma ray, x-ray, Ultraviolet radiation (UV), infrared radiation (IR), microwaves and radio waves. Spectroscopy serves many purpose in chemistry and worldwide. Spectroscopy has many purposes and uses worldwide. Spectroscopy allows chemists to engineer synthetic routes to help create new compounds from materials.
Spectroscopy serves multiple purposes in a wide variety of industries. Spectroscopy’s purpose in an industry includes helping to develop new chemicals and compounds which are able to be used as medical sources and supplies. Furthermore, spectroscopy can help with the purification of drugs and the creation of new drugs through the creation of different compounds. Chemists are not the only people that use Spectroscopy but physicists and biologists as well. Physicists use spectroscopy in the same correlation as chemists use it, while biologists use it to determine the different type of pigments a plant contains and helps in the study of photosynthesis.
As we already now know, Spectroscopy is the study of how light is emitted, absorbed and scattered through a material source. In the world of science many different types of Spectroscopy exists, but for this assignment I will only be speaking of five types, which include, Infrare...

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...st zone, this has a hybridization of sp3. This functional group is located on zone two and is between 2960-2850cm-1 and in addition to that, it is also known as an alkyl. Zone 3 as represented by the purple box is an aromatic or alkene, with a double between two carbon atoms (C=C). This bond is the main component that helps us form the benzene structure to form our molecule. This zone is typically around 1680-1450cm-1 wavenumbers. Lastly, the last box as seen in the diagram above in the orange box represents another functional group. The functional group that zone 4 represents is a C-Cl bond. This singe carbon and chlorine bond is located on the wavenumber axis of 600-800cm-1 and in addition its intensity is high. In conclusion from the graph observed, we managed to determine the main components and functional groups that formed our compound, benzyl chloride.

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