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The chemical group that gives color to a molecule
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chromophore
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context chemistry English) that part of the molecule of a dye responsible for its colour 2 (context chemistry English) (''more generally'') the group of atoms in a molecule in which the electronic transition responsible for a given spectral band is ...
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n. the chemical group that gives color to a molecule
Wikipedia
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A chromophore is the part of a molecule responsible for its color . The color arises when a molecule absorbs certain wavelengths of visible light and transmits or reflects others. The chromophore is a region in the molecule where the energy difference between ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Chromophore \Chro"mo*phore\, n. [Gr. ? color + fe`rein to bear.] (Chem.) Any chemical group or residue (as NO2 ; N2 ; or O2 ) which imparts some decided color to the compound of which it is an ingredient.
Usage examples of chromophore.
Light entering the eye brings about a change in the chromophore in the first thousandth of a second, and after that the rest of the changes are automatic, a causal chain that results in the experiencing of a vision of some sort.
This bacterial protein, commonly found in salt marshes, included a segment known as a chromophore, which changed its properties when exposed to light.
The absorbed energy initiated a branching reaction, a sequential one photon architecture-a set of wavelength keys fitted across the darkness into a self-repairing chromophore lock originally built of bacterial protein.
Earth possess pliant chromophores, epidermal cells that allow them to radically adjust their skin color and sur-face pattern.
Earth possess pliant chromophores, epidermal cells that allow them to radically adjust their skin color and surface pattern.
Certain cephalo-pods on Earth possess pliant chromophores, epidermal cells that allow them to radically adjust their skin color and sur-face pattern.