Infrared absorption spectroscopy of diacetylene ions trapped in solid argon

Jan Szczepanski1, Haiyan Wang, Brittnee Jones

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Center for Chemical Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200, USA.

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