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Lasers in the Chemistry Lab

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Daniel C. McCarthy, News Editor

Physicists may explore the fundamental interactions between light and matter, but in the chemistry lab these interactions get put to work. The intense monochromatic light from lasers has found application in both physical and analytical chemistry. Laser light is used as a photonic reagent to precipitate reactions, as a probe into atomic energy states and even as "tweezers" in subcellular research. Photonics Spectra spent a day at Stanford University's ZareLab in Palo Alto, Calif. to witness how lasers are put to use in chemistry research. The ZareLab is named after its director, Dr. Richard...Read full article

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    Published: March 1999
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