« Reply #41 on: June 15, 2011, 06:09:03 pm »
From Heinemen: For a molecule to absorb infrared radiation, the bending or stretching vibrations must change the overall dipole moment of the molecule.
Dipole Moment of a molecule is determined by teh size of the charge seperation and the distance between its atoms.
Can't find mass from Heinemen though.
*shrugs*
Found it
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