Beryllium dimer-caught in the act of bonding

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5934, 2009, Pages 1548-1551

  Merritt, Jeremy M ^a   Bondybey, Vladimir E ^b   Heaven, Michael C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; DIMER;

BERYLLIUM; CHEMICAL BONDING; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; ELECTRONICS; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

EID: 67649209192     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174326     Document Type: Article

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