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Is Deuterium Always Smaller than Protium?
Author(s) -
Dunitz Jack D.,
Ibberson Richard M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200800063
Subject(s) - isotopologue , deuterium , benzene , chemistry , volume (thermodynamics) , content (measure theory) , graph , organic chemistry , computer science , molecule , thermodynamics , physics , nuclear physics , mathematics , theoretical computer science , mathematical analysis
A question of size : At low temperatures the molecular volume in crystalline deuterated benzene is smaller than in the hydrogen isotopologue; above 170 K, however, the reverse is true (see graph).