The relevant IR lines for CO2 have to do
with vibrational states, so they ought to couple pretty efficiently to the kinetic degrees of freedom.
Not exact matches
With this method, the MIT group was able to bring the molecules down to their lowest
vibrational and rotational
states — a huge drop in energy.
With this in mind, the researchers with the Illinois State Geological Survey are testing equipment that has never been used before with carbon sequestration, including seismic sensors that use vibrational energy to create a detailed image of the gas pl
With this in mind, the researchers
with the Illinois State Geological Survey are testing equipment that has never been used before with carbon sequestration, including seismic sensors that use vibrational energy to create a detailed image of the gas pl
with the Illinois
State Geological Survey are testing equipment that has never been used before
with carbon sequestration, including seismic sensors that use vibrational energy to create a detailed image of the gas pl
with carbon sequestration, including seismic sensors that use
vibrational energy to create a detailed image of the gas plume.
However, excitation of the ν6 in - plane rocking mode in H2CC results in appreciable tunneling - facilitated mixing
with highly vibrationally excited
states of acetylene, leading to broadening and / or spectral fine structure that is largely suppressed for analogous
vibrational levels of D2CC.
Therefore, the results achieved in this study have shown that nonlinear effects in graphene nano - mechanical resonators reveal a hybridization effect at high energies that, if controlled, could open up new possibilities to manipulate
vibrational states, engineer hybrid
states with mechanical modes at completely different frequencies, and to study the collective motion of highly tunable systems.
«In conclusion, we demonstrated how sub-natural line width
vibrational resolved RIXS gives direct experimental access to the ground
state potential energy surface around selected atomic sites and moieties, not accessible
with other techniques.
The Jahn - Teller theorem
states that for any degenerate electronic
state associated
with a molecular electronic configuration, there will be some electron -
vibrational interaction which lifts the electronic degeneracy and leads to a molecular distortion.
In principle, odorant isotopomers provide a possible test of shape vs. vibration mechanisms: replacing, for example, hydrogen
with deuterium in an odorant leaves the ground -
state conformation of the molecule unaltered while doubling atomic mass and so altering the frequency of all its
vibrational modes to a greater or lesser extent [11].
When an air molecule collides
with the CO2 molecule the
vibrational energy is converted to kinetic energy and the air molecule is now hotter, while the CO2 molecule returns to its ground
state.
A warm parcel of air will radiate more than a colder parcel, even at the same 390 ppm of CO2 in the air due to the population of the different rotational and
vibrational energy
states of the GHGs from collisions
with other atmospheric molecules in the LTE limit.
Almost immediately (nanoseconds) they relax from their excited
state by either 1) emitting that energy as a new photon, some of which will continue up towards space, some of which will go back downward to be reabsorbed, thus keeping the energy in the atmosphere longer, or 2) by colliding
with another gas molecule, most likely an O2 (oxygen) or N2 (nitrogen) molecule since they make up over 98 % of the atmosphere, thereby converting the extra
vibrational energy into kinetic energy by transferring it to the other gas molecule, which will then collide
with other molecules, and so on, making the air warmer.
The molecules freely absorb and emit these, being in a thermal equilibrium distribution
with a significant fraction in the
vibrational state at any given time.
This reads «a vibrationally excited CO2 molecule CO2 * collides
with an N2 molecule and relaxes to a lower
vibrational energy
state CO2 while the N2 molecule increases its velocity to N2 ⁺ ``.
We know that in equilibrium the distribution of the
vibrational quantum
states (e.g how many molecules are in a
state with energy Ei) is invariant and depends only on temperature.
One of Phil's recent comments indicated to me, that he believes, that the N2 / O2 / Ar do NOT radiate, as per my concept; BUT those gases are in thermal equilibrium
with the trace CO2 / H2O / O3 / whatever other GHG molecules that are IR active, so they match in Temperature, and then the IR active GHG molecules radiate according to whatever
vibrational / rotational etc
states those molecules have; so that the «Atmospheric LWIR radiation» then does carry the signature of the various GHG species, rather than being «BB like».