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To: Doctor Stochastic
Last time I checked, nobody had figured out how to make CO order. I don't think a magnetic field would work; I doubt the diamagnetic suceptibility anisotropy is large enough, and the barrier to rotation is too large.

The molecule I really like, though, it CH2D2. Even though the only departure from tetrahedral symmetry is isotopic, the molecules align at about 1 K. In this case, tunneling through the rotational barrier is fast enough to allow the disorder to anneal out.

671 posted on 11/08/2005 4:10:29 PM PST by Right Wing Professor (If you love peace, prepare for war. If you hate violence, own a gun.)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Neat. And with a greenhouse gas, too.


674 posted on 11/08/2005 4:15:29 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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