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What is Colour centre?

Definition 22.19 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 22 — Solid-State Chemistry: Bands, Defects and Semiconductors

A colour centre is a point defect that absorbs visible light, such as an electron trapped in an anion vacancy of an alkali halide (an F centre), which colours a crystal that is otherwise transparent.

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