I'm sorry you've had poor results, online, in textbooks, and on this forum. Like Corribus: said, your original question:
Can anyone tell me the strong lines of OH- spectrum, specifically in the UV area? A link to a reputable source would be great as i need to reference it in an assignment. Thanks
is too general to work with. Your updated question:
I am talking about aqueous, and i have done hours of research online and also looked through the few textbooks that i own.
Isn't much better. You seem to lack the very basics, and you've told us how much time you've spent, but you haven't given us a hint of what you've learned.
The problem is, you may not be able to find anything, the way you've written the question. So we can't blame you for that. You want to detect aqueous OH
-? So you want the UV wavelengths that would show the difference between plain water, with its auto dissociation to H
+ and OH
- and say a dilute solution of sodium hydroxide solution in water? And you want to use standard UV optics of the sort you'd find in a high school lab? No, that's impossible.