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Chemistry for Everyone
Turning on the Light: Lessons from Luminescence
Patricia B. O'Hara
Department of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Carol Engelson
West Springfield High School, West Springfield, MA 01089

Wayne St. Peter
Hall High School, West Hartford, CT 06117

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January 2005
Vol. 82 No. 1
p. 49

Abstract
The goal of this article is to provide secondary school science teachers with a background in an array of luminescent phenomena including fluorescence, phosphorescence, and chemiluminescence that will enable them to teach their students fundamental properties of light and matter. Instructions for building and operating a simple spectro–fluorometer and five detailed lesson plans are provided in the Supplemental Material for experiments that utilize these processes.
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Instructions for the students and notes for the instructor for the five experiments are available.
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OÕHara, Patricia B.; Engelson, Carol; St. Peter, Wayne. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 49.
*  Keywords
Analytical Chemistry; Chemiluminescence*; Fluorescence Spectrometry; Forensic Chemistry; Luminescence
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December 10, 2004
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