INFRARED IR MATERIAL - AN OVERVIEW

A molecule can vibrate in many ways, and each way is named a "vibrational manner". If a molecule has N atoms, linear molecules have 3N-5 levels of vibrational modes Whilst nonlinear molecules have 3N-six degrees of vibrational modes.Brian Clegg With all the story of germanium, which was named after the state it first came from. And speaking of aspe