{"id":496,"date":"2008-06-26T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=496"},"modified":"2008-06-26T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T08:12:08","slug":"photochrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/496","title":{"rendered":"Photochrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><br \/>\nPhotochrome<br \/>\nYou give us those nice bright colors<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2008\/06\/amazing_green_moving_light_thi_1.html\">You give us the greens of chemistry<\/a><br \/>\nMakes you think all the world&#8217;s a funky lab, oh yeah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zRl6cT-TNwQ?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zRl6cT-TNwQ?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Zap the molecule with UV and it turns green.  This is due (as I understand it) to the molecule changing to another state (isomer) \u2014 and not simply fluorescence \u2014 where it then has a different absorption spectrum, so in this example it looks green.  When you remove the UV, it reverts to the original state and becomes clear again, and it&#8217;s doing this quite rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photochrome You give us those nice bright colors You give us the greens of chemistry Makes you think all the world&#8217;s a funky lab, oh yeah! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Zap the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-other-science","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}