Tourmaline spectra.

	Highly pleochroic section of green tourmaline. Spectrum is mainly made up of 3 peaks: 700 and 1100 nm being due to crystal field transitions within Fe²⁺ ions and 420-460 nm to charge transfer band. Fe²⁺ in tourmaline structure can replace either Al³⁺ or Mg²⁺. The symmetry of these sites being different, they give rise to transitions at different frequencies. The triplet peak around 1420 nm is produced by the vibration overtones in hydroxyl radicals. Notice the absence of an H2O spectrum for a polarizer direction perpendicular to optic axis. The 3 H2O bands are the first harmonic of the stretching OH vibrations. The fundamental bands can be seen in the Raman spectrum of the same crystal.