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Revision as of 22:59, 1 May 2016
Description
The distance between two successive maxima or minima of a wave, i.e., the length of one wave. The electromagnetic spectrum is characterized by the varying wavelengths, or energies, of each region. Wavelengths are expressed in distance units (micrometers or nanometers).
Synonyms and Related Terms
Wellenlänge (Deut.); longueur d'onde (Fr.);
Sources Checked for Data in Record
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p.923
- Walter C. McCrone, John Gustave Delly, The Particle Atlas, W. McCrone Associates, Chicago, IV, 1972
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
- Website address 1 Comment: AMOL reCollections Glossary -http://amol.org.au/recollections/7/c/htm
- M.Derrick, D.Stulik, J.Landry, Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science, in Scientific Tools for Conservation series, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1999