On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
Only, he was doing it for much smaller molecules and the spectrum is in the > microwave bands ... > Yes -- it makes sense that he's talking about molecules and not monatomic hydrogen. If you had monatomic hydrogen and excited it, perhaps it might become even more reactive with itself. In that case, perhaps you would get Rydberg versions of the sigma and pi molecular bonds rather than the spherical harmonics: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Electron_orbitals.svg Perhaps Rydberg excitation can also happen with these, and they will be similarly deformed from the low-principal-quantum number versions. Eric
