Dear
Haunted Chmist,
In the moment I will answer you only the first part of your Question.
Let’s draw a ”Picture”:As you may know, the sun is sending some Light to Earth, that’s called “
Emission”. At a rainy day you may see a “
Rain-bow” and if you measure and record the Intensity of each Colour, you have generated a so called ”
Emission-Spectrum”.
Of course! You don’t need a rain, to record the ”
Emission-Spectrum” from our sun, a device sometimes called a “
Spectrometer”, would do a more precise job.
On the other side, from every subject/body that is hit by sun-light you can recognise a Colour, too.
This is because the subject/body is “
extracting” some kind of the Light, and the remaining light is finally received by your Eyes. This
Extraction is also called “
Absorption” of Light, and if you now analyse the remaining Light with the “
Spectrometer”, and now record, how much Light is
missing, you generate a so called “
Absorption-Spectrum”.
How Spectrometers work, and how you can calculate with Light and what for, you can read for Example on the Page:
There are a Lot of related Pages on the same Site, too.
A Lot of answers you can also find on the Page:
I hope this may be of any help for your start.
Good Luck!
ARGOS
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