INDUCED INFRARED ABSORPTION OF DEUTERIUM IN DEUTERIUM – FOREIGN GAS MIXTURES

Abstract

The pressure-induced fundamental infrared absorption band of deuterium was studied in deuterium–helium, deuterium–argon, and deuterium–nitrogen mixtures at pressures up to 1 200 atm at room temperature. The enhancement absorption profile of each mixture shows a well-resolved splitting of the Q branch into two components QP and QR. While the enhancement contours of deuterium–helium mixtures do not exhibit any absorption peaks corresponding to the O and S branches, those of the other two binary mixtures show a pronounced S(2) peak and an indication of several other O and S peaks of the band. Integrated absorption coefficients of the band have been measured for all the mixtures, and the binary and ternary absorption coefficients were determined. The theory of Van Kranendonk and the available molecular parameters of deuterium and the perturbing gases were used to calculate the binary absorption coefficients of the individual lines of the O and S branches and of the quadrupole part of the Q branch of the band in all three binary mixtures. Using these calculated values and the experimental values of the total binary absorption coefficients of these mixtures, the overlap parts of the binary absorption coefficients of the Q branch were estimated.