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Demonstrations in Volume 5 of Chemical Demonstrations
12. Color, Light, Vision, Perception Rodney Schreiner, Jerry A. Bell, and Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
The Production of Light
• 12.1 The Emission Spectrum from a Candle Flame
• 12.2 The Temperature Dependence of the Emission Spectrum from an Incandescent Lamp
• 12.3 Incandescence from the Combustion of Iron and of Zirconium
• 12.4 Chemical Reactions That Produce Light
• 12.5 Emission Spectra from Gas-Discharge Lamps
• 12.6 Colored Flames from Metal Ions
• 12.7 Light-Emitting Diodes: Voltage and Temperature Effects
• 12.8 Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence
• 12.9 Chemiluminescence
• 12.10 Chemiluminescence from the Explosive Reaction of Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Disulfide Properties of Light
• 12.11 The Conversion of Light Energy to Thermal Energy
• 12.12 Refraction and Diffraction: The Separation of White Light into Colors
• 12.13 Disappearing Glass: Index of Refraction
• 12.14 Disappearing Gel: Index of Refraction
• 12.15 Observing the Transmission Spectra of Dyes
• 12.16 Dichroism: Transmission versus Reflection
• 12.17 Iridescence from a Polymer Film
• 12.18 The Photoelectric Effect
• 12.19 The Tyndall Effect: Scattered Light Is Polarized
• 12.20 Rainbow Spiral in an Optically Active Solution
• 12.21 A Sugar Solution Between Polarizers
• 12.22 The Birefringence of Calcite
• 12.23 A Liquid Crystal Display through a Polarizer
• 12.24 Laser Light Is Polarized Perception and Vision
• 12.25 Additive Color Mixing
• 12.26 Subtractive Primary Colors
• 12.27 The Perception of Brightness Is Relative
• 12.28 The Hermann-Grid Illusion
• 12.29 Finding the Blind Spot
• 12.30 The Land Effect
• 12.31 Saturation of the Retina: Afterimage
• 12.32 The Persistence of Vision
• 12.33 The Imprecision of Peripheral Vision
• 12.34 The Pulfrich Phenomenon: Perception of Motion Photoemission: Fluorescence and Phosphorescence
• 12.35 Photoluminescence
• 12.36 The Halide Quenching of Quinine Fluorescence
• 12.37 Differentiation of Fluorescence and Phosphorescence
• 12.38 Phosphorescence Excitation: Energy and Color Relationship
• 12.39 Quenching Phosphorescence with Light
• 12.40 Quenching Phosphorescence with Thermal Energy
• 12.41 The Fluorescence of Molecular Iodine Vapor Photochemistry
• 12.42 The Reversible Photochemical Bleaching of Thionine
• 12.43 Photochromic Methylene Blue Solution
• 12.44 The Photochemical Reaction of Chlorine and Hydrogen
• 12.45 The Effects of Solvents on Spiropyran Photochromism and Equilibria
• 12.46 A Copper Oxide Photocell
• 12.47 The Photobleaching of Carotene
• 12.48 Making a Cyanotype
• 12.49 An Iron(III)-Oxalate Actinometer
• 12.50 The Photoreduction of Silver Halide
• 12.51 Photochemistry in Nitroprusside-Thiourea Solutions
• 12.52 Photochromism in Ultraviolet-Sensitive Beads
• 12.53 The Photodissociation of Bromine and the Bromination of Hydrocarbons
• 12.54 The Photochemical Formation and Reaction of Ozone
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