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The Colors of Chemistry

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Re: The Colors of Chemistry

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Even if you don't follow the first half, it's worth skimming to get to the bottom where the computations predict the colors of chemical compounds with remarkable accuracy. The "Copper (II) aqua ion" one is the most impressive to me – the entire color spectrum is spot on.

Re: The Colors of Chemistry

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What's going on with Rhodamine B? Its color doesn't change as a function of concentration? Why does its transmittance data seem to bounce back and forth between 0 and 1?

There's something odd about how my normalization heuristic behaves with this particular spectrum. I haven't yet looked into it.
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