Question

This process names a type of bond discovered in 2015 between two bromines and a muonium that unusually slows down reaction rates at high temperatures. Coupling transitions between electronic energy levels and energy levels for this process require overlapping wavefunctions, per the Franck–Condon principle. The deviation from theory of the energy levels for this process is depicted on a Morse potential. In spectroscopy, (-5[1])the energy required to excite this process is usually between 1000 and 3000 (-5[1])inverse-centimeters. Nonlinear molecules with N atoms undergo this process in 3N minus 6 degrees of freedom, or normal modes. Types of this process undergone (10[1])by water molecules include scissoring, rocking, and stretching. (10[1])For 10 points, IR spectroscopy measures what type of oscillating molecular motion? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: molecular vibrations [or word forms like vibrating; accept vibrational bonds; prompt on oscillations; prompt on specific forms of vibrations such as stretching, bending, or twisting by asking “what more general type of motion is that?”; prompt on absorption or absorbing energy by asking “what molecular process is the result of absorption?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell CColumbia B62-5
Albert ZhangColumbia ARutgers A75-5
Lydia TarekegnYale ANYU A9910
Arjun BothraHaverfordRowan A10710
Aiden DartleyRutgers AColumbia A12010
Jason QinColumbia BCornell C12010

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