Can resonance be used to split a molecule of CO2?

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DrClaude said:
Even if you could do that in theory, molecular vibrations are highly non-linear, so there isn't a single frequency you could excite at. And the link you gave talks about using laser light, which is not the same thing! Even then, simply vibrationally exciting a molecule at a single frequency won't work, but time-varying frequencies are needed.

At the molecular level, a sound wave simply corresponds to collisions between molecules. Regular chemistry applies.
Could you us the Kuramoto model to synchronise the atoms first before applying a dissonant frequency?
 
DrClaude said:
Even if you could do that in theory, molecular vibrations are highly non-linear, so there isn't a single frequency you could excite at. And the link you gave talks about using laser light, which is not the same thing! Even then, simply vibrationally exciting a molecule at a single frequency won't work, but time-varying frequencies are needed.

At the molecular level, a sound wave simply corresponds to collisions between molecules. Regular chemistry applies.
Could you us the Kuramoto model to synchronise the atoms first before applying a dissonant frequency?
DrClaude said:
Even if you could do that in theory, molecular vibrations are highly non-linear, so there isn't a single frequency you could excite at. And the link you gave talks about using laser light, which is not the same thing! Even then, simply vibrationally exciting a molecule at a single frequency won't work, but time-varying frequencies are needed.

At the molecular level, a sound wave simply corresponds to collisions between molecules. Regular chemistry applies.
Could you apply the Kuramoto model to synchronise the atoms before applying a dissonant frequency?
 
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@Biskityas -- If you want to discuss this, please start a new thread and post links to the technical reading you've been doing about this. Thank you.