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Chemical Physics Structural Techniques

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The prodigious growth of chemistry in the twentieth century would not have been possible without the development of chemical physics techniques allowing one to investigate molecular structures and dimensions and to define the relative positions of atoms in space, connecting molecular dynamics to reactivity and to energy transformations.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, you’ve made a discovery. (Enrico Fermi)

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Califano, S. (2012). Chemical Physics Structural Techniques. In: Pathways to Modern Chemical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28180-8_4

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