What does transmittance in IR mean?

Intensity is measured as the percent transmittance of the IR radiation with respect to the reference. In other words, a 100\% transmittance means that the sample absorbed the same amount of radiation as the reference. A 0\% transmittance means that the sample absorbed all of the radiation.

What does Wavenumber mean in IR?

A wavenumber is the reciprocal of a wavelength (1/λ); thus, a wavenumber of 1600 cm−1 corresponds to a wavelength of. 11600 cm−1=6.25×10−4cm or6.25 μ m. Organic chemists find it more convenient to deal with wavenumbers rather than wavelengths when discussing infrared spectra.

What is liquid IR?

Liquid organic compounds can be examined directly as a thin film, “neat”, between two NaCl plates. When running a liquid sample, you need to have two plates, both to prevent the liquid from running off the plate and to prevent it from evaporating. Pick up the plates and take them to the IR.

What does low transmittance mean?

Each detection mode has its benefits. High transmittance at a frequency means there are few bonds to absorb that “color” light in the sample, low transmittance means there is a high population of bonds which have vibrational energies corresponding to the incident light.

What is light transmittance definition?

The transmittance is the ratio of the light passing through to the light incident on the specimens and the reflectance the ratio of the light reflected to the light incident.

What is a strong IR peak?

IR is a spectroscopic technique used to find the functional groups of the compounds e.g. OH, NH, C=O, C-o, C=C.etc . Stronger IR peak means greater level of dipole radiation (greater level of atomic motion for compounds that generate dipole radiations) based on the crystal symmetry.

Why is KBr transparent in IR?

KBr, has a trnasmitance of 100 \% in the range of wave number (4000-400 1/cm). Therefore, it does not exhibit absorption in this range. KBr is used as a carrier for the sample in IR spectrum and it is optically transparent for the light in the range of IR measurement.