High school students usually learn orbital and electronic configuration of atoms without paying attention to the importance of different quantum states raised from same electronic configuration. In this paper we show that the O + H2 reaction is a particular simple example to alert the importance of a clear definition of the quantum state of an atom when referring to a chemical reaction. In its ground state, O (...
Among the chemical reactions in atmosphere, the reaction of an excited oxygen atom, O (View the MathML source), with ground state molecular hydrogen, H2 (View the MathML source), has been one of the most studied both experimentally and theoretically. To describe this reaction, various potential energy surfaces have been calibrated and their dynamics has been studied using quantum mechanical and quasiclassical t...
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