In reply to David Roberson's message of Tue, 1 Nov 2011 13:44:58 -0400 (EDT): Hi, [snip] >Does anyone understand what happens to one of these fractional Rydberg >hydrogen atoms once it is released into the atmosphere? Does it gain energy >from the air and become standard hydrogen? I am just curious? > I order to be small enough to qualify as IRH, each atom has to give up hundreds of eV of energy. In order to expand again, it would have to somehow reacquire that energy.
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