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What is Photoelectron spectroscopy?

Definition 15.8 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 15 — Fragment Orbitals and Polyatomic Molecules

Photoelectron spectroscopy measures the kinetic energies of the electrons ejected from molecules by monochromatic radiation of known energy; each band of the spectrum corresponds to the removal of an electron from one occupied level, and its position gives the ionisation energy of that level.

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