Base Information
Volume
V48 - N2 / 2015 International Year of Light
Reference
93-97
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.7149/OPA.48.2.93
Language
Spanish / Español
Keywords
Optics education, Optics experiments, Fluorescence, Chlorophyll.
Abstract
The red fluorescence of chlorophyll is demonstrated by means of a laboratory photograph. Under ultraviolet light the chlorophyll dissolved in ethanol is fluorescent in the red range.
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