Franck–Condon principle
physics
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ionization phenomena
- In radiation: Ionization phenomena
…energetics are described by the Franck–Condon principle, which simply recognizes that, during the extremely short time of an electronic transition, the nuclear configuration of a molecule experiences no significant change. As a consequence of this principle, in an optical process the ion is almost invariably formed in some kind of…
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