Abstract
In this chapter, the processes in which electromagnetic radiation plays a key role in addition to that played by the studied molecules will be discussed. We shall chiefly be interested in processes during which no structural changes occur in the molecule. Two types of processes will be considered:
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the molecules accept energy either from the electric or from the magnetic component of the radiation; these are absorption processes
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molecules which are in an excited state (i.e., any state with energy higher than that of the ground state) return to the ground state with release of energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation; these are emission processes.
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Zahradník, R., Polák, R. (1980). Molecular Spectroscopy. In: Elements of Quantum Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3921-2_13
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