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supermolecule

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supermolecule [¦sü·pər′mäl·ə‚kyül]
(physical chemistry)
A single quantum-mechanical entity presumably formed by two reacting molecules and in existence only during the collision process; a concept in the hard-sphere collision theory of chemical kinetics.


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Supermolecules Physicists induced clouds of trapped, ultracold molecules to form Bose-Einstein condensates.
Of those, about a tenth coalesce into a supermolecule.
Finally, they need to assemble these super-atoms into supermolecules and find out what new materials emerge.
 
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