Isotopic studies reveal new insights into supercritical CO2

Scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the USA have studied the Raman spectrum of supercritical 18O-labelled CO2 and discovered that its vibrational modes were different to that of supercritical CO2 containing the more abundant 16O isotope. You can read a press release about the work from PNNL here.

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Raman spectrum of supercritical C18O2 and re-evaluation of the Fermi resonance
Charles F. Windisch , Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou , Paul F. Martin , B. Peter McGrail and Herbert T. Schaef
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 2560-2566
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22349F

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