This episode is devoted to "spectroscopy," when you toss light at a sample and see how the sample responds. We talk of infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, far-infrared spectroscopy, and microwaves. All of these types of light affect molecules--in different ways--and we learn how, and who was instrumental in developing each type.

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