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However, simultaneously there is emission of infrared radiation from the Boltzmann distribution of molecules in excited states, which leads to a negative energy component. This emission process depends not only on the concentration of the gas but very sensitively on the temperature since this determines the population of the excited states that emit (Eq. (A)). As we shall see in some specific cases below, it is the balance between these two at any given altitude that determines the changes in fluxes and the ultimate impact of a change in a greenhouse gas concentration. 

Infrared radiation causes excitation of the quantized molecular vibration states. Atoms in a diatomic molecule, e.g. H—H and H—Cl, vibrate in only one way they move, as though attached by a coiled spring, toward and away from each other. This mode is called bond stretching. Triatomic molecules, such as CO2 (0=C=0), possess two different stretching modes. In the symmetrical stretch, each O moves away from the C at the same time. In the antisymmetrical stretch, one O moves toward the C while the other O moves away. 

The energy of infrared radiation can excite vibrational and rotational transitions, but it is insufficient to excite electronic transitions. As shown in Figure 26-20, infrared spectra exhibit narrow, closely spaced absorption bands resulting from transitions among the various vibrational quantum levels. Variations in rotational levels may also give rise to a series of peaks for each vibrational state with liquid or solid samples, however, rotation is often hindered or prevented, and the effects of these small energy differences ai e not detected. Thus, a typical infrared spectrum for a liquid, such as that in Figure 26-20, consists of a series of vibrational bands. 

In an FT-ICR instrument, fragmentation may be achieved by colliding ions with neutrals (CID) but various other strategies are available, such as collision with surfaces (surface-induced dissociation) or bombardment with ultraviolet or infrared radiation from a laser (ultraviolet photodissociation and multiphoton infrared photodissociation). Dissociation may also be achieved by the absorption of black-body radiation produced by a heated vacuum chamber walls (blackbody infrared dissociation). An advantage of these radiation-induced fragmentation methods is that gas pulses are no longer required. Sustained off-resonance irradiation is the preferred, radiation-based method for FT-ICR MS because it is the simplest to implement and tune. Very low energy and multiple excitation collisional activation techniques are also available. 

Infrared radiative cooling of the Earth s stratosphere takes place through collisional excitation followed by radiative relaxation of molecular vibrational and rotational states, resulting in the emission of infrared and microwave radiation. In addition, these radiatively active molecules may intercept and reemit infrared radiation from the surface before it escapes to space. The result is a complex exchange of radiation between atmospheric layers and the surface. The effect of solar infrared radiation on this process is nearly negligible, since there is almost no overlap between solar and terrestrial blackbody surface emission. 

Most infrared spectroscopy of complexes is carried out in tire mid-infrared, which is tire region in which tire monomers usually absorb infrared radiation. Van der Waals complexes can absorb mid-infrared radiation eitlier witli or without simultaneous excitation of intennolecular bending and stretching vibrations. The mid-infrared bands tliat contain tire most infonnation about intennolecular forces are combination bands, in which tire intennolecular vibrations are excited. Such spectra map out tire vibrational and rotational energy levels associated witli monomers in excited vibrational states and, tluis, provide infonnation on interaction potentials involving excited monomers, which may be slightly different from Arose for ground-state molecules. 

Luminescence can be defined as the emission of light (intended in the broader sense of ultraviolet, visible, or near infrared radiation) by electronic excited states of atoms or molecules. Luminescence is an important phenomenon from a basic viewpoint (e.g., for monitoring excited state behavior) [1] as well as for applications (lasers, displays, sensors, etc.) [2,3]. 

Chemiluminescence (CL) is the emission of the electromagnetic (ultraviolet, visible, or near infrared) radiation by molecules or atoms resulting from a transition from an electronically excited state to a lower state (usually the ground state) in which the excited state is produced in a chemical reaction. The CL phenomenon is relatively uncommon because, in most chemical reactions, excited molecules... 

Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy Spectroscopy based on excitation of vibrational modes of chemical bonds in a molecule. The energy of the infrared radiation absorbed is expressed in inverse centimeters (cm ), which represents a frequency unit. For transition-metal complexes, the ligands -C N and -C=0 have characteristic absorption bands at unusually high frequencies, so that they are easily distinguished from other bonds. The position of these bonds depends on the distribution of electron density between the metal and the ligand an increase of charge density at the metal results in a shift of the bands to lower frequencies. 

The emitting species for sulfur compounds is excited S2. The lambda maximum for emission of excited S2 is approximately 394 nm. The emitter for phosphorus compounds in the flame is excited HPO with a lambda maximum equal to doublet 510-526 nm. In order to detect one or the other family of compounds selectively as it elutes from the GC column, the suitable band-pass filter should be placed between the flame and the photomultiplier tube to isolate the appropriate emission band. In addition, a thermal infrared filter is mounted between the flame and the photomultiplier tube to isolate only the visible and UV radiation emitted by the flame. Without this filter, the large amounts of infrared radiation emitted by the combustion reaction of the flame would heat up the photomultiplier tube, thus increasing its background signal. 

A photoconductive detector is a semiconductor whose conductivity increases when infrared radiation excites electrons from the valence band to the conduction band. Photovoltaic detectors contain pn junctions, across which an electric field exists. Absorption of infrared radiation creates electrons and holes, which are attracted to opposite sides of the junction and which change the voltage across the junction. Mercury cadmium telluride (Hg,. Cd/Te, 0 < x < 1) is a detector material whose sensitivity to different wavelengths is affected by the stoichiome-try coefficient, x. Photoconductive and photovoltaic devices can be cooled to 77 K (liquid nitrogen temperature) to reduce thermal electric noise by more than an order of magnitude. 

Infrared radiation is produced principally by the emission of solid and liquid materials as a result of thermal excitation and by the emission of molecules of gases. Thermal emission from solids is contained in a continuous spectrum, whose wavelength distribution is described by... 

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