Abstract
RECENT developments in the theory of band spectra in the infra-red1 lend particular interest to all new experimental results for triatomic molecules. We have recently examined the absorption spectrum of carbonyl sulphide, making use of a monochromator method in order to avoid the photochemical decomposition to be expected on exposure of this substance to the full energy of a Nernst filament. We find a complicated spectrum—a fact which in itself demonstrates the lack of symmetry in the molecule: the results are summarised in Fig. 1. In the few cases in which the bands have been resolved, the separation between the P and R branches is given.
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Dennison, Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 3, p. 280; 1931.
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BAILEY, C., CASSIE, A. Infra-Red Absorption Spectrum of Carbonyl Sulphide. Nature 128, 637–638 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128637c0
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