The Heat of Dissociation of Diatomic Hydride Molecules

Abstract
The computation of the heats of dissociation for several diatomic hydride molecules from the vibrational data of their band spectra is given, as well as a brief discussion of an apparent discrepancy between these estimates and those deduced from the phenomenon of instability at high rotational speeds. This rotational distortion is attributed to an uncoupling action on the electronic angular momenta.