Can you see what's invisible to the naked eye?
Infrared spectroscopy
Can you see what's invisible to the naked eye?
Imagine you're trying to figure out the ingredients in a mystery cake without opening it.
FTIR spectroscopy acts like a secret codebook that tells us what ingredients are in the cake by looking at how it interacts with light. The technical term for this is Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).
Example
You shine a light on the cake, and the FTIR spectrometer reads the light's interaction, revealing the sugar, flour, and eggs' unique "signatures."
Remember this
FTIR spectroscopy uncovers the cake's hidden ingredients by analyzing light interactions.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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