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Book SynopsisThe Mossbauer effect is not only one of the simplest and most beautiful discoveries of nuclear phYSics, it is one of those discoveries which, to the highest degre'e, tend to produce and develop new ties between nu clear physics and the other branches of physics as well as the other natural sciences and engineering.
Table of ContentsI. Resonance Fluorescence.- Energy and Width of Resonance Transitions.- Role Played by Doppler Broadening and Recoil.- II. The Mössbauer Effect.- Mössbauer’s Discovery.- Elements of the Theory of Recoilless Resonance Gamma Fluorescence.- Fundamentals of the Experimental Method of Observing the Mössbauer Effect.- Illustrations of the General Importance of the Mössbauer Effect.- III. Shift and Splitting of Mössbauer Spectrum Lines.- IV. General Reasons It Is Possible to Apply the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Frequency of Occurrence of Mössbauer Transitions.- Role Played by a Light-Atom Environment.- Delimitation of the Role Played by the Nearest Chemical Bonds and by the Macrostructure.- Possible Complications from a Preceding Conversion of the Emitting Nucleus.- Asymmetric Doublet Splitting in Mössbauer Spectra.- V. Principal Results of the First Studies of the Mössbauer Effect in Iron Compounds.- VI. Principal Results of the First Studies of the Mössbauer Effect in Tin Compounds.- VII. Some Prospects for Using the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Problems in the Nature of Chemical Bonds.- Problems in Chemical Kinetics, Radiation Chemistry, and the Physical Chemistry of Polymers ….- Literature Cited.- Supplement. New Results of Using the Mössbauer Effect in Chemistry.- Use of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance in Chemical Crystallography (Reprinted from Journal of Structural Chemistry, Volume 1, Numbers 1 and 2).
