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When standard rulers are not pretentious enough, scientists use overlapping light beams to measure the impossible. Interferometers split a beam, send it down…
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You can tell exactly how much sugar is in a grape by shining a light through its crushed, sticky juice. Refractometers measure the angle at which light bends…
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They don't magically feel temperature from afar; they simply possess the ability to see the invisible, lazy spectrum of light that warm objects continually…
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Figuring out the exact curve of a lens used to involve a lot of aggressive guessing before this instrument arrived. A spherometer uses three fixed legs and…
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Eyeballing brightness is for amateurs, so scientists built devices that literally catch and count light particles. Photometers convert incoming photons into…
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Human eyes are terribly biased, so we built machines to objectively judge the color of our chemicals. A colorimeter shines specific wavelengths of light…
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