Spectroscopy-03-01-2010

This year brought some increases in salary, workload, and stress level for the spectroscopic community.

In the field of materials analysis, it is no secret that the topic of food safety is currently garnering more and more attention, with instrumentation from nearly every technique area being employed in the fight against contaminations and poisonings.

Somewhat unique among molecular spectroscopy techniques, the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for industrial process analysis is driven primarily by the petroleum industry.

The Web contains a diverse collection of resources (tutorials, texts, images, videos, and animations) of interest to mass spectrometrists.

The experimental determination of the depth resolution of a Raman microscope is described.

This article is a follow-up to an earlier "Atomic Perspectives" column on the spectral lines of hydrogen (1).

The spectroscopy market and its major segments, atomic and molecular spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, is analyzed and forecasted for 2010.

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Click the title above to open the Spectroscopy March 2010 regular issue, Vol 25 No 3, in an interactive PDF format.