Cotton effect
id:
cotton-effect-250-4114804
title:
Cotton effect
text:
The Cotton effect in physics, is the characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.
In a wavelength region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the optical rotation at first varies rapidly with wavelength, crosses zero at absorption maxima and then again varies rapidly with wavelength but in the opposite direction. This phenomenon was discovered in 1895 by the French physicist Aimé Cotton (186
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_effect
date created:
date modified:
2024-04-18T12:58:55Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q898666","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q898666"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14