August 18, 2014

This graph shows the wavelengths as a function of the number of carbon atoms in materials containing carbon and silicon atoms [SiC(2n+1)H]. When the chain has 13 or more carbon atoms, the absorptions of these chains overlap the spectral region associated with the phenomenon [Courtesy: D. Kokkin, ASU].

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