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The unique stability of CoAr6+: Coordination complex or close-packed structure?
✍ Scribed by Dan Lessen; P.J. Brucat
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 373 KB
- Volume
- 149
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
Cobalt atomic ions (Co+ ) generated in a laser-driven plasma and expanded supersonically with 10% Ar/He serve as the nu-+ cleation site for the production of cobalt argon cluster ions, CoAr, , 1 g n < 20. Under mild expansion conditions (p& 1 Torr cm) these ions have suffkient internal energy to dissociate prior to mass analysis. Under these conditions a particular cobalt argon cluster, CoAr$ , dominates the observed mass distribution. The possible nature of CoAr6+ is discussed.