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Validity of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
✍ Scribed by Bludman, S.; Daitch, P. B.
- Book ID
- 124163446
- Publisher
- The American Physical Society
- Year
- 1954
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 578 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-899X
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