What is "spectroscope"

Usage examples of "spectroscope".

Think of the advancement man has made since the time when he was a cannibal cave dweller, shivering out of the glacial epoch, and contending with wild beasts for a foothold on the earth, till now that he enjoys the idealism of Berkeley, wields the quaternions of Hamilton, uses the lightnings for his red sandaled messengers, holds his spectroscope to a star and tells what elements compose it, or to an outskirting nebula and declares it a mass of incandescent hydrogen.

In the early Nineteenth Century Joseph von Fraunhofer developed a device, the spectroscope, which could identify the various components, or bands, in the light emissions of an energy source.

Before I continue I should tell you that we attached to our telelens a cinematic spectroscope, the better to ascertain changes of elements taking place within the corona.

It had been a photo-observatory, but now the mirror, photon multipliers, spectroscope gratings ana interferometers were crushed under sudden new arrivals of equipment.

Drosera, 5 Spectroscope, its power compared with that of Drosera, 170 Starch, action of, on Drosera, 78, 126 Stein, on Aldrovanda, 321 Strontium, salts of, action on Drosera, 183 Strychnine, salts of, action on Drosera, 199 Sugar, solution of, action of, on Drosera, 78 , , inducing aggregation in Drosera, 51 Sulphuric ether, action on Drosera, 219 , on Dionaea, 304 Syntonin, its action on Drosera, 102 T.

The forensics dude and dudette, a pair of cute, tanned Lebanese youngsters, point the yellow snout of their mass spectroscope into various corners and agree that there's something not unlike gun oil in the air.

Sorby examined the colouring matter with the spectroscope, and informs me that it consists of the commonest species of erythrophyll, "which is often met with in leaves with low vitality, and in parts, like the petioles, which carry on leaffunctions in a very imperfect manner.

They looked exactly like what the astronomers called Fraunhofer lines, when the only way they had to know what a star or planet was made of was to study it through a spectroscope.

Spectroscopes had found no trace of chlorophyll or any other complex organic compound.

Only one of them, when given two phials of dust for analysis in a police job over a year and half later, recalled that the queer colour of that skunk-cabbage had been very like one of the anomalous bands of light shown by the meteor fragment in the college spectroscope, and like the brittle globule found imbedded in the stone from the abyss.

What baffles me is what he hopes to accomplish by sneaking around the Alga-hans cabin with sodium iodide counters and microwave spectroscopes.