Chemistry A-Level
Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
What Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
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Infrared spectroscopy identifies bonds by the frequencies at which they absorb IR radiation, because each bond vibrates at characteristic wavenumbers.
Topics that use Bond vibration and absorption of IR radiation
- Spectroscopy (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- base peak
- Carbon environment
- Carbon-13 NMR and molecular symmetry
- Carbon-13 NMR prediction
- Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Characteristic bond absorptions in IR
- Characteristic shifts of proton environments
- Chemical equivalence and symmetry
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