colorimetry
- noun
- /ˌkɒlərˈɪmətri/
- Specialized
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colorimetría
- By applying colorimetry, the team was able to quantify the colors released during the chemical reaction.
Examples
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Here, chemist Leila Hargett prepares water samples for nutrient analysis by automated colorimetry.
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Traditional colorimetry provides only a partial solution.
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The word "largely" is important here because colorimetry based on a simple tristimulus model cannot specify color appearance completely.
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As a physics-oriented color scientist, I find the physical colorimetry to be sketchy and not tutorial.
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Colorimetry is the measurement of the wavelength and intensity of electromagnetic radiation in the visible region of the light spectrum.
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He seems reluctant to encumber either his history or the perceptual basis of color order with the ideas of basic colorimetry.
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The "true" primary colors are all abstract; they exist in theory per the axioms of colorimetry, but due to the overlap of sensitivity of our cones in practice, cannot be realized.
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In the lab, researchers use colorimetry to determine the concentration of substances in various solutions.
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Automated colorimetry allows scientists to accurately measure the intensity of colors in samples for chemical analysis.
Synonyms
A method for measuring how much of a chemical is in a liquid by its color
How Quantitative
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Etymology
The word colorimetry comes from color and the Greek root -metry, from metron, meaning 'measure', the same idea you see in thermometer. So, colorimetry is literally 'measuring color', and scientists use it to find how strong a color is and how much of a substance is in a solution.