Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 The infrared absorption of water . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Vibrational pump–probe spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 Absolute magnitude of the pump–probe signals

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• Spectroscopy
• Molecular diffusion
• Dynamics
• Physics
• Observational astronomy
• Scattering

5 Isotope effects on vibrational relaxation and hydrogen-bond dynamics in water Pump–probe experiments HDO dissolved in liquid H2 O show the spectral dynamics and the vibrational relaxation of the OD stretch vibratio

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• Spectroscopy
• Infrared spectroscopy
• Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy

7 Orientational relaxation of HDO:D2O as an activated process The orientational relaxation of HDO molecules dissolved in liquid D2 O is studied with polarizationresolved pump–probe experiments. The excitation of the

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• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Relaxation
• Diffusion MRI
• Hydrogen bond
• Rotational diffusion
• Cosmic microwave background radiation
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Science

126 Colophon DNOCESOTMEF DERARFNI-DIM

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1 Introduction This thesis is about water and hydrogen bonding. That is: the properties of individual water molecules, whose collective behavior is responsible for how we experience water in

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• Infrared spectroscopy
• Hydroxides
• Molecular vibration
• Hydrogen bond
• Hydrogen
• Properties of water
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Molecule
• Time-resolved spectroscopy
• Chemistry
• Spectroscopy
• Neutron moderators

Nawoord Natuurkundigen zijn als kleine kinderen, zij het met duurder speelgoed. Misschien geldt het niet voor alle natuurkundigen, maar voor mij lijkt deze stelling wel op te gaan. Door te spelen zonder vooropgezet doel

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Colophon Both the cover and the inside of this thesis were typeset with LATEX 2 . The font used for the text was Adobe Garamond, which is a digital reproduction of the roman fonts originally designed by Claude Garamond (

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Index absorbance induced, definition, 28 absorbance change definition, 14 isotropic, 15

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• HDO
• Relaxation
• Redshift
• Molecule
• Physics
• Infrared spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy

6 Dynamics of water molecules in an alkaline environment We report on two-color mid-infrared pump–probe spectroscopy experiments on the OH stretch vibration of HDO molecules in a concentrated (10 M) solution of NaOD

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• Chemistry
• Atomic physics
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Infrared spectroscopy
• Astronomical spectroscopy
• Relaxation
• Spectral line
• Heavy water
• Laser
• Physics
• Spectroscopy
• Observational astronomy

Samenvatting Dit proefschrift gaat over water en waterstofbruggen. We leren nu op school dat water de chemische formule ‘H2 O’ heeft, dus dat een watermolecuul bestaat uit twee waterstofatomen en e´e´n zuurstofatoo

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