The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color

From the contents:
Light and Color
- Some Fundamentals: Color, Light, and Interactions
Color Involving Vibrations and Simple Excitation
- Color Produced by Incandescence
- Color Produced by Gas Excitations
- Color Produced by Vibrations and Rotations
Color Involving Ligand Field Effects
- Color Caused by Transition Metals in a Ligand Field
Color Involving Molecular Orbitals
- Color in Organic Molecules
- Charge Transfer Color
Color Involving Band Theory
- Color in Metals and Semiconductors
- Color Centers
Color Involving Geometrical and Physical Optics
- Dispersive Refraction and Polarization
- Scattering and Nonlinear Effects
- Interference and Diffraction
Color-Related Topics
- Colorants of Many Types
- Vision, Luminescence, Lasers, and Related Topics
Appendix: Units

KURT NASSAU, PhD, spent thirty years as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey before retiring in 1989 as Distinguished Research Scientist. He is the holder of seventeen patents and author of over 450 publications, including four other books: Gems Made by Man, Gemstone Enhancement, Experimenting with Color, and Color for Science, Art and Technology.

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