With regard to IR spectroscopy, how would the O-H band change as an alcohol solution was diluted with water? I am referring to any alcohol, but for the sake of example we can use ethanol. I think first that the $\ce{O-H}$ band shown would increase in intensity. I believe this is the case because the water is becoming a greater proportion of the mixture and water is explicitly made from $\ce{O-H}$ bonds whereas the $\ce{O-H}$ bond in ethanol only represents a fraction of the bonds in the molecule. Is this correct? Is there also a wave number shift that would occur too that I am missing?
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