Research Article

Synthesis, Characterization, and Thermal Kinetics of Mixed Gadolinium: Calcium Heptamolybdate System

Table 3

Infrared band/peak assignments of some selected bands/peaks for mixed GdCa heptamolybdate (GdCaHM) crystal.

IR band/cm−1Assignments of bands/peaks

3404.2Water symmetry structure
2329.63Presence of Si–H bond
1776.63Attributed to water bending
1497.57Vibration of oxygen ion for gadolinium
837.63Vibrations of molybdate ions (Mo7O24)
578.83Presence of metal oxygen bond