{"id":218201,"date":"2025-07-18T06:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-a-triatomic-molecule-works-off-excess-energy"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:25:37","slug":"how-a-triatomic-molecule-works-off-excess-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-a-triatomic-molecule-works-off-excess-energy","title":{"rendered":"How a triatomic molecule works off excess energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-triatomic-molecule-works-off-excess-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A resonance effect can significantly affect how a three-atom molecule cools down when excited, RIKEN physicists have found. The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevA.111.032803\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review A<\/i>, highlights the complexity of the relaxation dynamics of even simple molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Small, energetic molecules in a vacuum\u2014such as those in the upper atmosphere or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/interstellar+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">interstellar space <\/a>\u2014can either break apart or cool down by releasing their energy through emitting light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy-dissipation mechanism of molecules via <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radiative+cooling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiative cooling<\/a> is crucial to understanding the stability of hot, excited molecules,\u201d says Toshiyuki Azuma of the RIKEN Atomic, Molecular &amp; Optical Physics Laboratory. \u201cIt\u2019s essential in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> in dilute environments such as Earth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/upper+atmosphere\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">upper atmosphere<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resonance effect can significantly affect how a three-atom molecule cools down when excited, RIKEN physicists have found. The study, published in Physical Review A, highlights the complexity of the relaxation dynamics of even simple molecules. Small, energetic molecules in a vacuum\u2014such as those in the upper atmosphere or interstellar space \u2014can either break apart [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}