Talk:Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)

message: I want an example for change from colorless to colored by using UV spectroscopy.
:Spectroscopy doesn't change the colour of a compound, it measures it. UV spectroscopy measures UV light absorbed by an compound. If a compound does not absorb any light in the visible spectrum, the compound therefore appears colourless, even though it may absorb light in other areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, for example ultraviolet, infrared, x-rays, gamma rays etc. Silver 10:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, I hope you don’t mind I corrected your spelling and actually, absorption in a physics context means when something absorbs light. Light, in reference to all electromagnetic radiation, not just visible light, is just packets of energy called photons, to which electrons then absorb. The photon does not absorb the electron. Silver 10:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

text: First of all, something absorbs light, not the other way around.  Next, to my knowledge, there is no microscope with which we can see how some material actually absorbs a photon.  But as a result of many kinds of studies, it has been surmised there are a number of results from the absorption of photons by some material and that the energy of the absorbed photon is transferred to the material and often converts the atoms, molecules, or ions of the material to a higher energy state.  These higher energy states are typically unstable and may convert quickly or not so quickly to other higher energy states or conditions.  Such conditions may include faster flying (translating), rotating, or vibrating atoms, molecules, ions, or free radicals.  This means the molecules, etc. get more internal energy, and therefore have more heat and are hotter (higher temperature).  H Padleckas (talk) 04:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
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message: what means of absorption ???????????  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.208.91.247 (talk) 05:28, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead of this article explains absorption in terms of quantum electrodynamics. Absorption is an every-day phenomena that can be explaned with classical physics (e.g. Beer-Lambert law) and should be described in a simple way. I think the lead of this article should be totally rewritten with a non-physicist reader in mind. Ulflund (talk) 09:40, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

text: Two versions back in the edit history there was an acceptable lead section, so I reverted back to that. Ulflund (talk) 11:37, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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message: I have removed an off-topic section about forests and glaciers because the section was partially off-topic, and the on-topic part was just an example of one case where radiation is absorbed, among hundreds of similar examples. Why wouldn't we write about absorption by skin, sunglasses, getting suntan, creating X-rays measuring the absorption in tissues, or any other absorption in the world? This article has really nothing to do with forests or glaciers. --Lumidek (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: Dkdj Srikanthsinthujan (talk) 13:20, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
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message: It seems to me that Attenuation coefficient is related to the subject of this, though maybe more general than just electromagnetic radiation. Gah4 (talk) 02:03, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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