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NMR: audio tutorial

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: how does it work?

Jenny Wells helps you to understand how NMR works. Why do flipping protons produce a spectrum?
 
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Aysha
This audio tutorial really enhaced my understanding of the topic and tied up all loose ends in light hearted way!
18 October 2006

Mike
I'm not sure that the statement linking NMR and CAT scans is correct. CAT stands for Computer Axial Tomography, and is a scanning method using a computer to combine X-ray images from multiple planes. Ms Wells is correct to assert that the word nuclear has been dropped from the name of medical scanning using NMR, but rather than being CAT, the method is called MRI scanning, or Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
06 May 2006

Danny
I'm on the OCR A2 Chemistry Course, but this was infinitely useful in just helping to understand what NMR does, as opposed to getting a spectra with a bunch of lines and not knowing what it's really about. And the CAT joke had me in hysterics!
18 June 2005

Laura
It was very useful. I am actually a second year university student and this helped me remember the basics from A level.
08 December 2004

updated: 06 April 2006