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orthohelium
orthohelium (stress variable) [f. ortho- + helium, as an antonym of the earlier par(a)helium.] The form of helium whose spectrum exhibits a fine structure of triplets owing to the spins of the two orbital electrons being parallel.1922 A. D. Udden tr. Bohr's Theory of Spectra iii. iii. 86 Helium was ...
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parahelium
parahelium (stress variable) Also parhelium. [f. para-1 3 + helium.] The form of helium whose spectrum does not exhibit the fine structure of orthohelium, owing to the spins of the two orbital electrons being anti-parallel.1896 Runge & Paschen in Astrophysical Jrnl. III. 18 We come to the conclusion...
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Helium atom
electrons) requires antisymmetry under simultaneous exchange of spin and coordinates
Parahelium is then the singlet state with a symmetric function and orthohelium This explains the absence of the state (with ) for orthohelium, where consequently (with ) is the metastable ground state.
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orthohydrogen
orthohydrogen (stress variable) Also ortho hydrogen and with hyphen. [f. ortho- + hydrogen as tr. G. orthowasserstoff (Bonhoeffer & Harteck 1929, in Naturwissenschaften XVII. 182/1), coined on the analogy of orthohelium (see quot. 1935).] The form of molecular hydrogen in which the two nuclei in the...
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metastable
metastable, a. (mɛtəˈsteɪb(ə)l) [Irreg. f. meta- + stable a., as tr. of G. metastabil (coined in sense 1 by W. Ostwald, in Lehrb. d. allgemeinen Chem. (1893) II. i. 517).] 1. Of a physical system: persisting (in its existing state) when undisturbed or subject to disturbances smaller than some small ...
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