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re: the H and K lines of ionized calcium
Post Sputnik — (archived)

I talk about electron transitions in energy levels, but this occurs only in individual atoms and ions

I suppose you are testing me. Get this entry fixed on Wiki right away :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_electronic_transition

Anyone with any enthusiasm at all can simply look this stuff up :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_band

Even straightforward binary molecules are known to have excited bound states. There are all kinds of interband transitions in solids as well.

Dance, collide, spin. What a life atoms and molecules must lead. I would prefer the isolated life of the optical trap, or the simple life of the extended crystalline lattice, over all that dancing and colliding and spinning. I makes me dizzy!

Usually this is the place where I start to talk about the IIIrd and IVth excited electronic states of my most favorite molecule of all time! But that's UV not IR.

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