D-line

The refractive index of a liquid is recorded as where t is the temperature at which the measurement is made, and D refers to the wave length of the D line of sodium. As already pointed out, it is usual to determine both the refractive index and the density of the liquid at 20° in any case they should be determined at the same temperatme. These two constants are useful in assisting the characterisation of a pure hquid they are particularly valuable for ahphatic hydrocarbons and similar compounds where the methods of characterisation by the formation of solid derivatives are not entirely satisfactory. 

Sodium is present in fair abundance in the sun and stars. The D lines of sodium are among the most prominent in the solar spectrum. Sodium is the fourth most abundant element on earth, comprising about 2.6% of the earth s crust it is the most abundant of the alkali group of metals. 

The sign of optical rotation is placed in parentheses, (-f) for dextrorotary, (—) for levorotary, and ( ) for racemic, and placed before the formula. The wavelength (in nanometers is indicated by a right subscript unless indicated otherwise, it refers to the sodium D-line. 

In 1817, Josef Fraunhofer (1787-1826) studied the spectrum of solar radiation, observing a continuous spectrum with numerous dark lines. Fraunhofer labeled the most prominent of the dark lines with letters. In 1859, Gustav Kirchhoff (1824-1887) showed that the D line in the solar spectrum was due to the absorption of solar radiation by sodium atoms. The wavelength of the sodium D line is 589 nm. What are the frequency and the wavenumber for this line ... 

What is the energy per photon of the sodium D line ( i = 589 nm) SOLUTION... 

The refractive index of CCI4 at 20°C and 589 nm, the D line of the sodium spectrum, is 1.4607. At this temperature the density of this compound is 1.59 g cm . Use this information to calculate a for CCI4. Criticize or defend the following proposition The prediction that = f(R/X) may have been premature. The consideration of Eq. (10.3) which led to this conclusion could just as well predict = f(a /X). 

The 3 Pi/2, 3 P2/2 excited states involved in the sodium D lines are the lowest energy excited states of the atom. Consequently, in a discharge in the vapour at a pressure that is sufficiently high for collisional deactivation of excited states to occur readily, a majority of atoms find themselves in these states before emission of radiation has taken place. Therefore... 

Refra.ctlon, Optical glasses are usually described in terms of their refractive index at the sodium D line (589.3 nm), and their v value (or Abbe number) which is a measure of the dispersion or variation of index with wavelength, ie, v = ), in which is the refractive index at the... 

In 1868, within a decade of the development of the spectroscope, an orange-yeUow line was observed in the sun s chromosphere that did not exactiy coincide with the D-lines of sodium. This line was attributed to a new element which was named helium, from the Greek hellos, the sun. In 1891 an inert gas isolated from the mineral uranite showed unusual spectral lines. In 1895 a similar gas was found in cleveite, another uranium mineral. This prominent yellow spectral line was then identified as that of helium, which to that time had been thought to exist only on the sun. In 1905 it was found that natural gas from a well near Dexter, Kansas, contained nearly 2% helium (see Gas, natural). 

Intense sodium D-line emission results from excited sodium atoms produced in a highly exothermic step (175). Many gas-phase reactions of the alkafl metals are chemiluminescent, in part because their low ioni2ation potentials favor electron transfer to produce intermediate charge-transfer complexes such as [Ck Na 2] (1 )- There appears to be an analogy with solution-phase electron-transfer chemiluminescence in such reactions. 

Although x-rays probe inner rather than valence electrons, in light elements the chemical state of the emitting atom may affect inner-shell energies enough to be detected at high resolution. Thus the K d lines of sulfur at 0.537 nm shift by 0.3 pm between the oxidation states and. ... 

Refractive index, where given for a uniaxial crystal, is for the ordinary (co) ray where given for a biaxial crystal, the index given is for the median ((3) value. Unless otherwise specified, the index is given for the sodium D-line (X = 589.3 m i). 

Table 6.3 Refractions of some electron groups (measured by sodium D line)...

For any measurement of optical rotation, the wavelength of the light used and the temperature must both be specified. In this case, D refers to the d line of sodium at 589 nm and 25 refers to a measurement temperature of 25°C. Calculate the concentration of a solution of L-arginine that rotates the incident light by 0.35° in an optical path length of 1 dm (decimeter). 

All the alkali metals have characteristic flame colorations due to the ready excitation of the outermost electron, and this is the basis of their analytical determination by flame photometry or atomic absorption spectroscopy. The colours and principal emission (or absorption) wavelengths, X, are given below but it should be noted that these lines do not all refer to the same transition for example, the Na D-line doublet at 589.0, 589.6 nm arises from the 3s — 3p transition in Na atoms formed by reduction of Na+ in the flame, whereas the red line for lithium is associated with the short-lived species LiOH. 

The situation is perhaps not quite so bad as is implied here, since single measurements of a, are usually made at the sodium D line, 589.6 nm. Nevertheless, it is clearly better to state the wavelength than to assume that this will be understood. 

Determine the portion of a 30-mile, 18-in. (17.124-in. l.D.) line which must be paralleled with 20-in. (19.00-in. l.D.) pipe to raise the total system capacity 1.5 times the exisdng rate, keeping the system inlet and outlet conditions the same. 

To express optical rotations in a meaningful way so that comparisons can be made, we have to choose standard conditions. The specific rotation, [a ]D, of a compound is defined as the observed rotation when light of 589.6 nanometer (nm 1 nm = 10-9 m) wavelength is used with a sample pathlength / of 1 decimeter (dm 1 dm = 10 cm) and a sample concentration C of 1 g/mL. (Light of 589.6 nm, the so-called sodium d line, is the yellow light emitted from common sodium lamps.)... 

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