THE VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRUM OF SILVER CHLORIDE
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2000
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Ohio State University
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The visible and ultraviolet electronic transitions of AgCl were recorded at high resolution with the Fourier transform spectrometer associated with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ. The ultraviolet system was previously observed and assigned at a $0^{+} - X^{1}\Sigma^{+}$ $transition,^{a}$ while the visible transition is a new, violet-degarded electronic system near $25,500 cm^{-1}$. A similar, violet-degarded visible transition in AgF was recently $observed,^{b}$ and high-level ab initio $calculations^{c}$ on AgF have predicted that the excited state of this transition is a $^{3}\Sigma^{+}{_{1}}$ state. For the ultraviolet transition, the excited AgCl molecules were produced in a microwave discharge operated with 70 W absorbed power and at a total pressure of approximately 2 torr. For the visible system, a King-type carbon tube furnace was charged with AgCl powder and heated to 1900 C to produce the excited AgCl molecules. The molecular constants for the states involved will be presented.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Southern Illionois University
Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Southern Illionois University