Vibrational spectroscopy methods offer a number of possibilities to in
vestigate the most different aspects of chemical interactions between
solids and gases or liquids. The investigations can be performed to pr
ovide kinetic or dynamic information. Here we present a synthetic pict
ure of the issue selecting and describing transmittance, reflectance,
scattering and emission experiments performed in extremely different r
eaction conditions. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
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