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   From: a202010@lycos.com-   
      
   > > Timothy Sutter wrote:   
      
   > > > Salmon Egg wrote:   
      
   > > > > Can a dopant be considered to be an auxochrome?   
      
   > > > if you were to say that a 'sensitizer' heightens   
   > > > the luminosity of the 'activator,' then you could   
   > > > say it was 'like' an auxochrome which may heighten   
   > > > the intensity of the chromophore's color,   
      
   > > > is it -possible- to make a useful analogy?   
      
   > > > maybe sort of...   
      
   > > it's sort of like, you'd be saying the -cloth-   
   > >  was the host lattice for the dye   
      
   > > in the same way as CaF2 is the host lattice   
   > > for Eu3+ ions.   
      
   > > but in this respect, Eu3+ would -be- the 'dye'   
      
      
   oh, sorry, i meant eu2+   
      
      
   > > but then you'd be saying that it was something   
   > > about the CaF2 lattice that set up an energetic   
   > > situation in the europium that resulted   
   > > in the fluorescence,   
      
   > at least insamuch as different lattices   
   >  may result in different spectra.   
      
   > > whereas, you wouldn't say that there was anything   
   > > about the -cloth- that comntributed to the color   
   > > of the dye, at all.   
   >   
   > > so, any analogy would probably be centered around   
   > > the case of a sensitizer/activator where the sensitizer   
   > > could be said to be behaving somewhat like an auxochrome   
   > > in the overall crystal system.   
   >   
   > > if you just have an activator and no sensitizer,   
   > > there doesn't seem to be any real similarity at all.   
      
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