Date of Award
5-24-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Chemistry, MS
First Advisor
Scott Reeve
Committee Members
Bruce Johnson; Richard Warby
Call Number
LD251 .A566t 2012 O32
Abstract
The explosive bouquet theory suggests that canines trigger on volatile organic species within an explosive and not the pure explosive. Modeling an explosive detection scheme after this theory, an experimental design using mid infrared sources was established at the ArCLAS facility. A calibration program, documented within this thesis, was created in a Visual Basic platform as an Excel Add-In. The calibration program converts time based spectra collected with a germanium etalon into frequency spaced scans and then to known frequencies to allow spectral assignments to rovibrational transitions of molecules of interest. Additionally, the analysis of isobutylene, a volatile organic bouquet species associated with the military explosive C4, in low resolution indicates possible regions for high resolution sensing such as the v7, v25 and v28 bands though the v25 band proves to be an insufficient band for sensing.
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Osborn, Tabetha Lynn, "High Resolution Spectroscopy: The Study of Isobutylene" (2012). Student Theses and Dissertations. 874.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/874
