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Calculations on the Energies of Hydrocarbons

Nature volume 145, pages 777–778 (1940)Cite this article

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WE have made a number of calculations on the energies of various hydrocarbons and have also obtained related properties such as the internuclear distances in the ground and simple excited states, the heats of formation and the approximate wavelength of certain absorption bands. Incidentally, an estimate of the heat of sublimation of carbon has been made which is probably as reliable as any other value hitherto given.

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  1. Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, S.W.7

    G. J. KYNCH, E. H. LLOYD & W. G. PENNEY

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KYNCH, G., LLOYD, E. & PENNEY, W. Calculations on the Energies of Hydrocarbons. Nature 145, 777–778 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145777b0

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