What's the difference between colorimeter and spectroscopy?

Colorimeter


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The colorimeter output is several orders of magnitude above the lower limit of detection of the photon counter.
  • (2) An elution electrophoresis system in which a porous packed bed is used for separation and a flow photometer or colorimeter for continuous monitoring of the eluate may be capable of rapid, high-resolution analysis of serum proteins and other protein mixtures with very little manual labor.
  • (3) The results of the assay can be read either with a simple colorimeter or the naked eye.
  • (4) A simple vertical-beam colorimeter is described (useful in the Micro-SIA) which can be easily assembled by the user from commonly available components.
  • (5) The examination of each sample consisted of three parts: (1) apparent specific gravity analysis (porosity); (2) tristimulus colorimeter analysis; and (3) subjective observer color analysis.
  • (6) Micro colorimeters, equipped with appropriate interference filters and small-volume (2-8 mu 1) flow cells, are used as detectors.
  • (7) The Minolta tri-stimulus colorimeter CR-200 was used to quantify the blanching effect of topical corticosteroids in a non-occluded vasoconstriction test.
  • (8) In other rats, total protein concentration of peritubular capillary blood plasma was determined before, during, and after these same infusions with a newly described submicroliter fiber-optic colorimeter.
  • (9) The irritant skin response was quantified by visual scoring as well as by the following noninvasive methods: measurement of transepidermal water loss (TEWL) by an evaporimeter, measurement of skin color by a colorimeter, measurement of superficial blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry, and measurement of edema in the skin by ultrasound A-scan.
  • (10) The following noninvasive measuring methods were used for evaluation of the skin before and after exposure to irritants: measurement of transepidermal water loss by an evaporimeter, measurement of electrical conductance by a hydrometer, measurement of skin blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry, measurement of skin colour by a colorimeter and measurement of skin thickness by ultrasound A-scan.
  • (11) We designed and built a simple colorimeter that facilitated rapid direct visual comparison of unknown samples with known color standards.
  • (12) Using a Wright colorimeter the ordinary long-term, long-wave cone dark-adaptation curve was measured at 0, 2, 4, 7, 17, 25, 40 and 49 degrees nasally in the visual field.
  • (13) This paper describes a combined unit, consisting of an analog to digital converter and a personal computer, which was connected in parallel with the chart recorder and the analyser's 570 nm channel of the colorimeter.
  • (14) Divers were required to color match stimuli using either a Burnham-type colorimeter or the Munsell Limit Color Cascade.
  • (15) A colorimeter-based swim-up (SU) technique was developed and compared with a Hamilton Thorn Motility Analyser (HTM) for the evaluation of ram semen.
  • (16) Such modifications helped obtain compatible results of optic density measurements and DI values with photoelectric colorimeters of various brands.
  • (17) The effect of opacity on the colorimetric responses of large-area and small-area colorimeters was determined using an elastomer intended for maxillofacial prosthetics use and containing various pigments at different concentrations.
  • (18) The colorimeter setting is then matched by a combination of tinted trial lenses.
  • (19) This double-blind study evaluated the Rembrandt Lightening Gel and Whitening Toothpaste for shade change, colorimeter shade change.
  • (20) With both colorimeters a positive movement of the alpha-axis (toward red, P less than 0.001) and a negative movement on the L-axis (toward dark, P less than 0.01) were registered.

Spectroscopy


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
  • (2) The acetonitrile extract is concentrated and analyzed by HPLC, using a new polymer-based column, and detected by UV spectroscopy at 270 nm.
  • (3) 1H NMR spectroscopy has been used to characterize these proteins and to compare them to one another and to native antithrombin III.
  • (4) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
  • (5) Therefore, 31P MR spectroscopy may be unable to quantify the cell fraction of a tumor that has radiobiologic hypoxia.
  • (6) The conformations of each peptide in various solvents were determined by CD and ir spectroscopy in order to relate immunological to structural properties.
  • (7) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to examine the effect of oxysterol insertion into normal and sickle RBC membranes and the total lipid extracts of the membranes.
  • (8) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (9) The conformations of cysteamine, thiazolidine, and thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid were determined in aqueous solutions using NMR spectroscopy.
  • (10) As monitored by in vivo near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), no improvement was noted after 50% O2 whereas 50% O2-5% CO2 resulted in increased perfusion, an oxidation of cytochrome a,a3, an increase in oxyhemoglobin, and reduced quantities of de-oxyhemoglobin (p less than 0.01) despite a further increase in intracranial pressure.
  • (11) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
  • (12) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.
  • (13) The Helical structures of d(C-G-C-A-m5C-G-T-G-m5C-G), d(m5C-G-C-A-m5C-G-T-G-C-G) and d(C-2aminoA-C-G-T-G) were studied in aqueous solution at various salt concentrations and temperatures by 1H-NMR spectroscopy.
  • (14) spectroscopy for the collection of conformational constraints, calculation of the protein structure from the n.m.r.
  • (15) A new method for continuous registration of enzymatic hydrolysis of peptides involving 1H-NMR spectroscopy was developed.
  • (16) 1H-NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the conformation and dynamics of the isolated tailpiece from human serum immunoglobulin M, a 22-residue peptide containing a single asparagine glycosylation site.
  • (17) Ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy yields information on many aspects of ion-molecule chemistry.
  • (18) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (19) Reports in the past two years have appeared evaluating the clinical use of phosphorus spectroscopy to detect ischemic heart disease, cardiomyopathy, and cardiac transplant rejection.
  • (20) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.