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Mechanism of Atom Recombination

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THE RECOMBINATION of two atoms requires the intervention of a third body—a chaperon1—which stabilizes the diatomic complex by reducing its energy below that of the two separate atoms. One plausible kinetic representation of this process is where I are atoms, M is the chaperon and I * 2 represents a collision complex which is iso-energetic with the separate atoms.

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PORTER, G., SMITH, J. Mechanism of Atom Recombination. Nature 184, 446–447 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/184446a0

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