Guanidinium ion and urea are chaotropic agents which disrupts hydrophobic core of proteins.

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DNA gives absorbance at 595 nm in presence of Diphenylamine while gives direct absorbance at 260 nm.

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RNA gives absorbance at 595 nm in presence of Diphenylamine while gives directabsorbance at 540 nm.

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The characteristic absorption parameter for the sample is the extinction coefficient a, yielding the correlation I= I 0 e -d .

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The ratio T= I/I 0 is called transmission.

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Algebraic transformation of the exponential correlation into an expression based on the decadic logarithm yields the law of Beer–Lambert:

where [d] = 1cm, [c] = 1mol^dm -3 , and [e] = 1dm^3mol -1 cm1 e is the molar absorption coefficient.

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Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy technique is used to measures the absorption difference between left and right circularly polarized light