Statistics and the symmetry groups of non-rigid molecules
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Physics
- Vol. 10 (4) , 377-380
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976600100491
Abstract
It is shown that the use of the symmetry group of a non-rigid molecule leads to the same results for the statistical weights and symmetry number as do more conventional methods.Keywords
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