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THE SYMMETRIES (OR NEAR-SYMMETRIES) OF A MOLECULE or solid unit are embodied in the operations that change it to an equivalent (or nearly equivalent) system. Each such operation transforms a local physical attribute. This may be a displacement associated with an oscillation. It may be an orbital for electrons or nuclei. It may be an angular momentum or spin. It may be electric charge or color charge.
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Duffey, G.H. (2000). Analyzing Organized Structures. In: Modern Physical Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4297-1_13
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