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What is absorbance?

Absorbance is related to the number of photons a sample absorbs. When an atom or molecule absorbs a single photon, an electron makes a transition to a higher orbital energy. As the number of atoms or molecules increases more photons can be absorbed. The number of...

What is a digitizer?

A digitizer is a device that takes analog information and converts it into a digital form. The ‘bit’ is the amount of memory the digitizer has. In a 16-bit digitizer, you have 16 bits of memory. For our spectrometers, this translates to being able to measure 65536...