Irradiation at 173 or 143 nm of samples of ¹⁶O₂ or ¹⁸O₂ in solid Ne near 4 K produced many new spectral lines in absorption and emission from the mid-infrared to the near-ultraviolet regions. The major product was ozone, O₃, that was identified with its mid-infrared and near-ultraviolet absorption lines. Oxygen atoms were formed on photolysis of O₂ and stored in solid neon until the temperature of a sample was increased to 9 K, which enabled their migration and combination to form O₃ and likely also O₂. O₂ in five excited states and O in two excited states detected through the emission spectra indicate that complicated processes occurred in solid Ne after far-ultraviolet excitation. For the transition ¹D₂ → ³P_1,2 of O, the lifetime was determined to be 5.87 ± 0.10 s; the lifetime of the upper state of an unidentified transition associated with an emission feature at 701.7 nm was determined to be 2.34 ± 0.07 s.

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分散在固体氖中 的O ₂在远紫外线作用下的光解†

在4 K附近的固体Ne中，对¹⁶ O ₂或¹⁸ O ₂样品在173或143 nm处进行辐照，从中红外到近紫外区域产生了许多新的吸收和发射光谱线。主要产物是臭氧O ₃，它以中红外和近紫外吸收谱线鉴定。氧气原子在O _2的光解过程中形成并存储在固体氖中，直到样品温度升至9 K，这使它们的迁移和结合形成O ₃，也可能形成O ₂。Ø ₂通过发射光谱检测到五个激发态的O和两个激发态的O表示在远紫外线激发后，固体Ne中发生了复杂的过程。对于O的跃迁¹ D ₂ → ³ P _1,2，寿命确定为5.87±0.10 s。与701.7 nm处的发射特征相关的未知跃迁的上层状态的寿命确定为2.34±0.07 s。