B&W Tek Completes Series of Educational Videos
B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) has completed its first series of educational videos.
B&W Tek, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) has completed its first series of educational videos. The six-episode series discusses various types of spectroscopy, with each video focusing on one technique and including examples of real world applications, equipment used to take a measurement, and discussion of the definitions and theories behind each topic.
The topics covered in the first season of educational videos include emission, transmission, reflection, absorption, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy. B&W Tek plans to produce several more educational series over the coming years. The company will delve deeper into the nuances of Raman spectroscopy in the next series of videos, planned for release later this year.
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