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The spectrum of inelastically scattered slow neutrons has been obtained for polycrystalline biphenyl. Whereas translational modes account for the broad general features of the whole spectrum, the fine structure observed can be interpreted in terms of librational and q-independent internal modes. The six theoretically predicted librations have been assigned. Moreover, one has good reasons to believe that the torsional internal mode, practically inactive in infrared and Raman, occurs in the INS spectrum at about 70 cm—1.
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Krebs et al. (1964) studied this question.
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