The spectrum of powdered AgCN has been studied in the region 2500–1800 cm−1. Intense absorption at 2178 cm−1 is attributed to an oscillation involving the CN group. The CN frequency for AgCN is almost 100 cm−1 higher than the CN frequencies of NaCN and KCN.
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Summary of the Raman data: K. W. F. Kohlrausch, Der Smekal‐Raman Effekt (J. Springer, Berlin, 1931), p. 320;
J. H. Hibben, The Raman Effect and Its Chemical Applications (Reinhold, New York, 1939), p. 452.
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Infra‐red data:
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L. Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (Cornell University Press, 1940), p. 73.
5.
Carbon tetrachloride has no absorption bands in the range which was studied.
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