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A distinct experiment in An Automated, Highly Selective Reaction Monitoring Instrument Using Molecular Rotational Resonance Spectroscopy by Ann Adele Byars and others (Figure 1 and Figure 3) tracked exchange of hydrogen for deuterium in ethyl acetoacetate mixed with deuterated methanol. A pump circulated chemical solution through a valve; a calibrated loop injected aliquots into a temperature-controlled inlet, held at room temperature for this exchange experiment. Neon carried the vaporized sample to a cavity spectrometer. Separately recorded broadband spectra and fitted rotational Hamiltonians identified transitions for the four isotopic forms before targeted monitoring.^[ref]

The readout was each assigned line's signal over reaction time, normalized by the sum of the four signals. Transitions with the same quantum numbers reduced response-factor differences. A solvent wash addressed observed sample carryover. The signals distinguished the unsubstituted, two singly substituted, and doubly substituted forms. Only one gas-phase structural form was detected; the authors explicitly caution that their readout does not recover the structural chemical equilibrium in chemical solution.^[ref]

This example uses nonlinear molecules, so neither the single-constant linear rigid rotor nor the synthetic comb above is a fit to its spectrum. Its connection to the model is the sensitivity of moments of inertia to isotope placement. Line position helps assign a species; signal size additionally depends on sample transfer, initial quantum state populations and instrument response. Matching quantum numbers is a useful control, not a proof of identical response factors. These distinctions explain why resolving species and determining their concentrations are separate inference steps.

A single-mode optical fiber supports only its fundamental spatial guided normal mode at the operating wavelength, with possible distinct states of polarization of an electromagnetic wave. The designation must include wavelength: MIT's fibre laboratory explicitly notes that a fibre sold for single-mode operation can support several normal modes at its helium–neon laser wavelength.^[ref]

A recommended atomic weight applicable to normal materials, rather than the result for every possible enriched sample. The tabulated neon value $20.1797(6)$ and the arithmetic result above need not agree in every last displayed digit. Some chemical elements have intervals of standard atomic weight because their isotopic abundances vary across normal materials.^[ref]