Internal excitation

It is well known that the electron-impact ionization mass spectrum contains both the parent and fragment ions. The observed fragmentation pattern can be usefiil in identifying the parent molecule. This ion fragmentation also occurs with mass spectrometric detection of reaction products and can cause problems with identification of the products. This problem can be exacerbated in the mass spectrometric detection of reaction products because diese internally excited molecules can have very different fragmentation patterns than themial molecules. The parent molecules associated with the various fragment ions can usually be sorted out by comparison of the angular distributions of the detected ions [8]. 

Penning ionization. Occurs through the interaction of two or more neutral gaseous species, at least one of which is internally excited ... 

When the product ion moved with a higher kinetic energy than predicted by the stripping model, the collision apparently was more elastic— i.e., less kinetic energy of the incident ion was used for internal excitation of the products. In an ideal elastic collision with H transfer the products carry no internal energy at all. If the secondary ion moves forward and the H atom moves backwards, conservation of momentum requires that the primary ion has a velocity ... 

In most cases, ion activation in the reaction region or fragmentation zone is applied to increase the internal energy of the ions transmitted from the ion source. The most common means of ion activation in tandem mass spectrometry is collision-induced dissociation. CID uses gas-phase collisions between the ion and neutral target gas (such as helium, nitrogen or argon) to cause internal excitation of the ion and subsequent dissociation... 

When isomeric ions were produced by ternary association in the flow tube, thus allowing the potential surface to be accessed, the chemistry was more complicated. The gas with which the ions associated was added upstream and sufficient time was allowed for the association reaction to proceed before the reactant gas was added. When the associated ions are initially produced, they will be stable against dissociation if ternary collisions with the He remove sufficient energy to take them below the dissociation limits. However, they will still be internally excited and this excitation needs to be removed before the reactivity is probed. Again, the bulk of the evidence suggests that this de-excitation has occurred before the reactant gas is added. In a few cases there is some indication of residual excitation (see Section... 

To reduce the high level of internal excitation which results from association of the metal ion with the olefin, adducts are prepared using the ligand exchange reaction 14 and the product is allowed to further... 

Both the coordinatively unsaturated photofragment and the ejected CO tend to be produced with more internal excitation as the energy of the photolysis photon increases. 

Consider N fermions in a box with fixed energy levels E, (including rest-mass which itself includes internal excitation energy). To each E, there correspond co, distinct (degenerate) states, made up of gi internal states and 4n Vp2dp/h3 kinetic degrees of freedom, where p is momentum and V is the volume. 

The most widely used spectral line source for atomic absorption spectroscopy is the hollow cathode lamp. An illustration of this lamp is shown in Figure 9.5. The internal atoms mentioned above are contained in a cathode, a negative electrode. This cathode is a hollowed cup, pictured with a C shape in the figure. The internal excitation and emission process occurs inside this cup when the lamp is on and the anode (positive electrode) and cathode are connected to a high voltage. The light is emitted as shown. 

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