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Molecular Formation and Destruction in the Interstellar Medium

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A brief review is given of the most important processes of formation and destruction of diatomic molecules in gaz phase reactions : the radiative association, the photodissociation, the predissociation, the inverse predissociation and the dissociative recombination.

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Van Regemorter, H., Suzor, A.G., Roueff, E. (1979). Molecular Formation and Destruction in the Interstellar Medium. In: Damburg, R. (eds) 6th International Conference on Atomic Physics Proceedings. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9113-9_18

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