The physics and chemistry of color
Subtitle: the fifteen causes of color
By: Kurt Nassau.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Wiley series in pure and applied optics
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780471391067
Subjects: Color.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Light and Color; title: Some fundamentals: color, light, and interactions; title: pt. II. Color involving vibrations and simple excitations; title: Color produced by incandescence; title: Color produced by gas excitations; title: Color produced by vibrations and rotations; title: pt. III. Color involving ligand field effects; title: Color caused by transition metals in a ligand field; title: Part. IV. Color involving molecular orbitals; title: Color in organic molecules; title: Charge transfer color; title: pt. V. Color involving band theory; title: Color in metals and semiconductors; title: Color centers; title: pt. VI. Color involving geometrical and physical optics; title: Dispersive refraction and polarization; title: Scattering and nonlinear effects; title: Interference and diffraction; title: pt. VII. Color-related topics; title: Colorants of many types; title: Vision, luminescence, lasers, and related topics; title: App. A. Units, Chromaticity, and Color order systems; title: App. B. Incandescence equations; title: App. C. Atoms and simple molecules; title: App. D. Crystal fields, ligand fields, and molecular orbitals; title: App. E. Band theory; title: App. F. Prism, thin film, and layer diffraction grating; title: App. G. Recommendations for additional reading; title: Index.