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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: Isobestic point def'n wanted
Message-ID: <1994Mar23.230900.4807@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 23:09:00 GMT
References: <1994Mar23.143955.1@opal.tufts.edu>
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In article <1994Mar23.143955.1@opal.tufts.edu> skrishna@opal.tufts.edu writes:
>Can anyone give me a good definition of "isobestic point"?  I heard it used in
>a seminar in a way I did not understand.

     In spectroscopy, it's a point whose absorbance is constant over the
course of a chemical reaction.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca

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