MOLECULAR ANALYSIS

A spectrometer for analysing material comprises a light source, a monochromator for selecting a range of wave-lengths from the light source and emitting them as monochromatic light, a chamber for locating a sample, a focusing means for focusing the monochromatic light onto a sample in the chamber, a detector for measuring the monochromatic light after it has interacted with the sample. An independently variable parameter is varied between two values vi and v2, while the detector measures the monochromatic light across a range of is wavelengths, the independent variable having a value or values between v1 and v1+ v, and v being much smaller than the interval between v1 and v2.