On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this a trick question? Why would it be greater? > > AFAIK all the isotopes of hydrogen have the identical dissociation energy: > > HH, DD, HD, TT, TH, TD > > They are all 4.8 eV, no?
I don't know. I simply can't find anything on the web that I can access (for free). Would their ionization energies be different? If not, why are there so many papers in the past few years studying the ionization and dissociation energies? Just puzzled. T

