A simplified curve-shape indexing system for spectrophotometric absorption curves is described by means of which the tentative identification of an “unknown” (whose curve is already at hand) may ordinarily be made in 2 or 3 minutes even in the presence of small amounts of colored impurities. Quantitative solutions are not required.
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Wm. A. Shurcliff (1942) studied this question.