To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated ( ); p. pr.
History of IR and FTIR spectroscopy. Chemical IR spectroscopy was emerged as a science in 1800 by Sir William Herschel. Firstly most IR instrumentation was based on prism or grating monochromators. Michelson invented interferometer in 1881.
British inventor Humphry Davy invented an incandescent light bulb in 1801 and created the âarc lampâ in 1809. In 1835, Scottish inventor James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light in Dundee.