Preferred Label : chemiluminescence;
IUPAC definition : Emission of radiation resulting from a chemical reaction. The emitting species may
be a reaction product or a species excited by energy transfer from an excited reaction
product. The excitation may be electronic, vibrational or rotational; if the luminescence
occurs in the infrared the expression infrared chemiluminescence is used.;
Origin ID : C01045;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- See also
Emission of radiation resulting from a chemical reaction. The emitting species may
be a reaction product or a species excited by energy transfer from an excited reaction
product. The excitation may be electronic, vibrational or rotational; if the luminescence
occurs in the infrared the expression infrared chemiluminescence is used.
