Lesson 23 · about 20 minutes
How chemists see molecules
Light that makes bonds wiggle, a machine that weighs molecules, and magnets that find their hydrogens.
You will learn
- Why each kind of bond absorbs its own infrared light
- How to spot O–H and C=O bonds in an infrared spectrum
- How a mass spectrometer weighs a molecule and its pieces
- What NMR shows about a molecule's hydrogens, and how MRI uses it