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Recent experimental observations in our laboratory, with high pressure mass spectrometry, have revealed the existence of previously unreported species involving water clustered to sodium dimer ions, and alkali metal hydroxides clustered to alkali metal ions. We discuss here the important implications of these results concerning the existence of such species, and how from a practical aspect they confirm the stability of certain cluster species proposed by Ferguson1 to explain masses recently detected at upper altitudes using mass spectrometric techniques.
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Märk, T., Peterson, K. & Castleman, A. New gas phase inorganic ion cluster species and their atmospheric implications. Nature 285, 392–393 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/285392a0
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