Middle infrared

Mancozeb is a dithiocarbamate pesticide with a very low solubility in organic and inorganic solvent. In this work we have developed a solvent free, accurate and fast photoacoustic FTIR-based methodology for Mancozeb determination in commercial fungicides. The proposed procedure was based on the direct measurement of the solid samples in the middle infrared region using a photoacoustic detector. A multivariate calibration approach based on the use of partial least squares (PLS) was employed to determine the pesticide content in commercially available formulations. 

Traditional infrared spectrophotometers were constructed with mono-chromation being carried out using sodium chloride or potassium bromide prisms, but these had the disadvantage that the prisms are hygroscopic and the middle-infrared region normally necessitated the use of two different prisms in order to obtain adequate dispersion over the whole range. 

Infrared spectra for solid organic compounds are frequently obtained by mixing and grinding a small sample of the material with specially dry and pure potassi um bromide (the carrier), then compressing the powder in a special metal die under a pressure of 15 30 tonnes to produce a transparent potassium bromide disc. As the potassium bromide has virtually no absorption in the middle-infrared region, a very well-resolved spectrum of the organic compound is obtained when the disc is placed in the path of the infrared beam. 

The large majority of analytical applications are limited to middle infrared region. But in recent years interest has developed in near infra red and far infrared regions. 

R Fayolle, D. Picque, B. Ferret, E. LatrUle, G. Corrien, Determination of major compounds of alcoholic fermentation by middle-infrared spectroscopy Smdy of temperamre effects and calibration methods, Appl Spectrosc., 50(10), 1325-1330 (1996). 

Clay minerals are ubiquitous up to hundreds of metres from hydrothermal U mineralization, and often there is zoning in the type of alteration minerals (Hoeve Quirt 1984). These can be mapped with remote sensing that can detect in the visible and the middle-infrared sections of the electromagnetic spectrum (Earle et al. 1999). The two oxidation states of U and Fe have been proposed to map bleached... 

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Comparison of the FT-Raman spectrum and FT-IR spectra of dichloroacetophenone (Fig. 7.8) illustrates the fact that the Raman shift for a particular group is similar in energy to the energy of IR absorption for the group in the middle-infrared region.- The two spectra provide complementary information. 

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MPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) is an ESA developed instrument to be operated on board ENVISAT-1 satellite. It will perform limb sounding observations of the atmospheric emission spectrum in the middle infrared region, from which concentration profiles of atmospheric constituents will be derived on a global scale over a period of several years. Since atmospheric emission... 

Figure 1. The spectral absorption/emission of selected atmospheric gases in the middle infrared regime. The illustration shows the wavelength occurrance without specific regard to relative intensities.

This type of interaction determines above all the optical properties of lowdimensional organic conductors in the middle infrared region. It leads to activation of modes that are normally nonactive in the IR. For the tetra-cyano-p-quinodimethane (TCNQ), tetrathiafulvalene (TTF), and other symmetrical molecules, tt molecular orbital occupied by the radical electron are nondegenerate, so linear e-mv coupling is possible only for the totally symmetric (ag) modes. For example, TCNQ molecule has 54 normal modes, among which only 10 are the ag modes. They cover a range of frequencies from about 130 cm-1 to about 3050 cm-1 [16], while TTF molecules has seven totally symmetric modes of the range 250 cm-1 < toa < 3100 cm-1... 

The middle infrared region of the cured crosslinked polymers shows bands in the 3480 cm"i, the 1200-1300 cm" and the 1000-1100 cm l region, the latter two increase with phthalic anhydride concentration. A band at 1420 cm"l along with the 3480 cm i 0-H stretch band appears in the spectra of the epoxy resin cured with curezol only. This band is a weak band in the uncured epoxy resin and is interpreted to be associated with a secondary hydroxyl group arising from epoxy ring opening (1 ). Bands at 1080 cm"i and 1290 cm"i also are present and are probably the C-0 stretch... 

The first laboratory quality observations made from balloon platforms were middle infrared absorption experiments of trace atmospheric spedes using the sun as a source. This work has now been extended to shuttle and satellite-based observations using Fourier interferometers. The ATMOS instrument, developed under the leadership of C.B. Farmer and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, represents the flagship of this ef-... 

Because of its high operating temperature and the energy distribution in the middle infrared spectrum area the Nernst stick is the most used infrared radiation source. However, it is mechanically very sensitive and can be deformed by heating. This can change the optical characteristics of the spectrophotometer. 

The most frequent use of the absorption spectrophototometry in the middle infrared field lies in the identification of substances through molecular vibration. The wavelength (i.e, the wave numbers) of the of the absorption band are characteristic chemical identity of the substance in question. The intensity of the absorption bands allows quantitative analysis of the samples but, unlike in the ultraviolet and visible, in the infrared field diffuse radiation is much more refreshing, and for this reason quantitative determination infrared, are affected by notable errors. 

KBr and NaQ are the most commonly used window slice materials used for determination of IR spectrum of the organic solution. But KBr is widely used than NaCl. KBr is the most suitable window slice material for testing organic liquid in middle infrared. 

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